{"id":56887,"date":"2024-04-07T02:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T02:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56887"},"modified":"2024-04-07T02:57:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T02:57:06","slug":"judge-goes-political-shamefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56887","title":{"rendered":"Judge goes political &#8230; shamefully"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Judges are supposed to stay above and apart from political battles, at least that&#8217;s what I always have thought.<\/p>\n<p>Oops. Not so fast. A Texas Supreme Court associate justice said the other day he believes Democrats are going to rig the 2024 election to keep the presumed Republican nominee from being elected president.<\/p>\n<p>Justice John Devine needs to have his mouth washed out with soap. According to the Texas Tribune: <em>\u201cDo you really think the Democrats are going to roll over and let Trump be president again?\u201d Devine asked in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gjGLQRKZtcI\">keynote speech<\/a>\u00a0at the Texas Tea Party Republican Women\u2019s 2023 Christmas event. \u201cYou think they\u2019re just going to go away, all of a sudden find Jesus and [there will] be an honest election? I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What is he saying? Is he implying crookedness in the election? Looks like it to me! It&#8217;s also totally inappropriate for a judge &#8212; who well might hear a case involving a two-party political dispute &#8212; to shoot off his mouth in such a fashion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2024\/04\/05\/texas-supreme-court-justice-john-devine-2024-election\/\">SCOTX Justice implies Democrats will cheat in 2024 election | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is crap! The judge ought to know it, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Judges should be honestly evaluating and applying our state\u2019s laws, not giving partisan speeches baselessly accusing members of a different political party of \u2018cheating\u2019 in elections,&#8221; Houston County Attorney Christian Menefee said.<\/p>\n<p>Justice John Devine needs to step away from the political fight.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges are supposed to stay above and apart from political battles, at least that&#8217;s what I always have thought. Oops. Not so fast. A Texas Supreme Court associate justice said the other day he believes Democrats are going to rig the 2024 election to keep the presumed Republican nominee from being elected president. Justice John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56887\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge goes political &#8230; shamefully<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10328,7419,10298,4531,4728],"class_list":["post-56887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-election-cheating","tag-maga","tag-scotex","tag-tea-party","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56888,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56887\/revisions\/56888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}