No discipline for Texas judge who used racial slur to describe Latino defendants
Texas judicial commission says remark by Judge Allen Amos was "not necessarily appropriate" but also not punishable.
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I fail to see how a judge who refers to the people in his courtroom via slurs can be impartial in his decisions.
This was in Texas. I'm sure the Judge doesn't even think of that as a problem there.
All this tells us is that the Texas Judicial Commission is also racist as fuck.
I didn't even need to pay for access to this article to know that
Texas is constantly competing with Florida for the title of "armpit of the USA".
Welp it looks like it's up to the citizenry to handle it away from cameras then
Can't read this because of paywall
Doesn't seem to be paywalled, are you sure?
I was on mobile. Seems to be fine on my PC.