Progressives unseated all 59 GOP judges in Harris County (address, should)

[cBach]

Originally Posted by WRM20

You mean "competent" judges like Denise Pratt? Or the "competent" judges that give court appointments to empty headed morons like Jared Woodfill? The Republican judges aren't all saints either.

Yep. Harris County had one of the highest conviction rates for juveniles. That, I bet, will change. Juveniles don't need to be locked up like dogs, they can be reformed. They are just kids.

I for one and really happy about what the people of Houston said when they voted. They got it right.

[ipuck]

Originally Posted by cBach

Yep. Harris County had one of the highest conviction rates for juveniles. That, I bet, will change. Juveniles don't need to be locked up like dogs, they can be reformed. They are just kids.

I for one and really happy about what the people of Houston said when they voted. They got it right.

Sound like you are the perfect candidate to get your car/house break-in by a juvenile.

[Dopo]

Thank God, finally kicking all those crooks out

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Thank God, finally kicking all those crooks out

Talk about activist judges! I'm surprised that the GOP ran a stale ad touting the "fairness" of Harris County Republican judges. It may have worked last time, but definitely not this time. It seems the cat finally got out of the bag!

Glad that Ogg won last time, despite the blowout nationally for blue. I think there will be an actual justice system now in Harris County. Can't wait for the same thing to happen in Fort Bend! Middleton will become D.A. and now it's just a matter of replacing the judges.

[shanv3]

Originally Posted by cBach

This is something I never thought I'd see:

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/...n-the-midterms

Finally we may not be the incarceration capital of the US. People shouldn't be thrown in jail for minor offenses like smoking weed and stuff. Glad Houston is following Austin's lead on this.

For what else people should be let off?? DUI also?

[oceangaia]

Sweeps have not been unusual. Few know anything about individual judges. I'd say the vast majority of a judge's votes come from straight ticket party voting. Beto was a strong candidate at the top of ticket pulling a heavy turnout in Harris and soundly defeating Cruz.

When I was approaching the line at a polling location, a nice lady running for judge was asking for my vote and telling me about her values. I politely listened a few seconds, thanked her for running, and excused myself. Truth is, I wanted to tell her she was wasting her time, that she was going to win or lose based on who won the upper ticket races and it had nothing to do with her.

It'll be interesting from here on as Texas did away with straight ticket voting beginning in 2020.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06...ticket-voting/

[buenos]

Originally Posted by cBach

minor offenses like smoking weed and stuff. .

You mean like assaulting strangers on the street or home robbery? This reminds me of a shell game.

Originally Posted by txdemo

Judges shouldn't have party affiliation next to their names on the ballot.

That was useful advice 30 years ago. In 2018 Republican means law and order, and respect for the constitution, while Democrat means anarchy and lying about the law and enforcing Marxist "values" instead of the law. When it comes to the Judiciary branch. The function of courts (as defined in the constitution) is to enforce the law. Only Republicans qualify because only they are willing to do it. Maybe some centrist Democrats too, but they are nowhere to be found.

[txdemo]

Originally Posted by buenos

That was useful advice 30 years ago. In 2018 Republican means law and order, and respect for the constitution, while Democrat means anarchy and lying about the law and enforcing Marxist "values" instead of the law. When it comes to the Judiciary branch. The function of courts (as defined in the constitution) is to enforce the law. Only Republicans qualify because only they are willing to do it. Maybe some centrist Democrats too, but they are nowhere to be found.

Double yawn.

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by buenos

You mean like assaulting strangers on the street or home robbery? This reminds me of a shell game.


That was useful advice 30 years ago. In 2018 Republican means law and order, and respect for the constitution, while Democrat means anarchy and lying about the law and enforcing Marxist "values" instead of the law. When it comes to the Judiciary branch. The function of courts (as defined in the constitution) is to enforce the law. Only Republicans qualify because only they are willing to do it. Maybe some centrist Democrats too, but they are nowhere to be found.

I know you are trolling, and don't even live here, but that's total crap with no basis in truth. Some Republican judges are good, some are bad. Same thing with judges that run as Democrats. However, it was only Republican judges that thought poor misdemeanor defendants should be locked up by imposing bail from a schedule that didn't take personal circumstances into consideration. That policy will be overturned, but at great cost to Harris County taxpayers. It is Republican judges that continue to give court appointments to Jared Woodfill, the former head of the Republican Party in Harris County, despite the fact he's an idiot. It was Republican judge Denise Pratt who made up law in Family Court, destroying lives in the process.

[madrone2k]

I have a more general comment. It often seems to me that the type of people who run for office mostly to promote their careers and make money affiliate themselves with whatever party seems to be in vogue.

I went to the Soviet Union on business for a US oil company in 1991, during the coup against Gorbachov. Interestingly, the big shots who ran various oil-related institutes there were somewhat high in the Communist Party hierarchy up until that time. After the Soviet system fell, it seems they suddenly became capitalists and somehow came into a sort of ownership of the institutes that they formerly ran as communists.

My point is, there are many people who are aggressive about achieving personal success regardless of what pretense they have to make about ideology. I think it's a common human failing that we can see in our own country today.