Texas’ top judge is right: Politics has no place in courtrooms | Opinion
“And I must add this,” he said. “I grow concerned that political divisions among us threaten the judicial independence essential to the rule of law.”
“The election of the judge is hailed or decried as a political event, not a judicial one,” he said. “It will not be a one-off. It will be on both sides.”Hecht, a Republican first appointed to the judiciary in 1981 by Gov. Bill Clements, stopped short of naming any specific Texas judge who had crossed the line into partisanship.
Just two days after Hecht delivered his remarks in Austin, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee in Amarillo, suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s initial authorization back in 2000 of the widely used abortion drug mifepristone. “When judicial accountability is measured by whether a judge decides cases the way people like, the way some people like, and what they like is different from what the law is, the pressure is on the judge to surrender independence, and the law to popular will,” Hecht said. “We should oppose it in every form at all costs.”
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