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Does the Texas GOP need judges who think being Latino makes you a "continuing danger"?

By Gritsforbreakfast

Texas Monthly and many others consider them "Texas' Worst Court," and in this writer's opinion, everyone should seize every available opportunity to vote against incumbent members of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. If you're voting in the GOP primary on March 4, you'll get that chance in in one of the three races.The San Antonio Express News today endorsed challenger Robert Francis, a state district judge from Dallas whose candidacy Grits examined here, against Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Paul Womack. There are plenty of reasons to vote against Womack, but the paper trots out this oldie but goodie: Womack, who has served on the court for 12 years, also wrote the outrageous 2002 Saldano opinion, which allowed ethnicity to be considered as evidence that a defendant would be a continuing danger to society...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 16, 2008 (boomark / email).