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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: Sanguine on February 17, 2019, 06:55:59 pm

Title: Something deeply perverse about partisan elections for judges [Opinion]
Post by: Sanguine on February 17, 2019, 06:55:59 pm

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You could consider it a journalistic rite of passage to get subpoenaed as part of an ongoing lawsuit.

I had my first experience with that on Friday afternoon.

When I received an email from the front desk that I needed to sign for a package, I presumed it was a tardy Valentine's Day gift from some noble admirer of my work at the Chronicle — or at least from my mom. Instead it was a summons to testify in a divorce case....

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/texas-elected-judges-perverse-subpoena-13622198.php (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/texas-elected-judges-perverse-subpoena-13622198.php)