Here’s unexpected but welcome development:
A petition filed in the 455th Travis County District Court on Apr. 8. calling for the removal of Travis County District Attorney José Garza was granted Friday afternoon by Dib Waldrip, the 433rd District Judge in Comal County and Presiding Judge of the 3rd Administrative Judicial Region.
Waldrip, who was appointed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to serve as the Presiding Judge of the 3rd Administrative Judicial Region in 2022, was assigned the case on Apr. 10 before granting the application for the issuance of a citation with an order for Garza to answer and appear in Travis County District Court on May 16.
Additionally, Waldrip appointed the Office of the Bell County Attorney and the Honorable Jim Nichols to represent the State as “a qualified and appropriate prosecuting attorney from within the region.”
Nichols is a Republican.
According to the court records, Nichols was selected by Waldrip after considering available options in accordance with Texas’ statute stating “the county attorney of the jurisdiction serves as counsel for the State in actions to remove an officer, except when such an action seeks removal of a prosecuting attorney.”
KXAN reached out to Waldrip, Abbott and Nichols about the matter and will update this story once a response is received.
The petition argues “Incompetency and official misconduct” related to the policies enforced by Garza about the who and what criminal offenses his office prosecutes.
Specifically, the petition references three issues supporting these allegations:
- Defendant singles out law enforcement officials by automatically, indiscriminately, presenting charges against them to grand juries;
- Defendant maintains a “do not call to testify” list of law enforcement officials who he deems unfit to testify and disqualifies from serving as witnesses for the State of Texas and
- Defendant refuses to prosecute a class or type of criminal offense under state law.
The 21-page petition goes on to detail policies and evidence that allegedly show violations of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure such as presenting cases to grand juries that are not supported by probable cause and discriminatory practices specific to law enforcement officers.
Regular BattleSwarm readers know Soros-backed Garza for his soft-on-crime policies and his zeal for prosecuting Austin police officers. Successfully removing him from office would at least allow the possibility of actually fighting crime in Austin.
(Hat tip: Dwight.)
Tags: Austin, Crime, Democrats, Dib Waldrip, George Soros, Greg Abbott, Jim Nichols, Jose Garza, Social Justice Warriors, Travis County
“Defendant maintains a “do not call to testify” list of law enforcement officials who he deems unfit to testify and disqualifies from serving as witnesses for the State of Texas”
Nothing wrong with that in principle. The number of cops who habitually “testilie” is, well, non-zero and they shouldn’t be called to testify ever. It comes down to why certain cops are on his list.
The lack of objective performance evaluations on politicians vs. popularity contest victories would be what eventually kills democracies and representational government.
District attorneys ought to be evaluated on one criteria and one only: Did crime go down during their tenure? Did any of the people that they declined to prosecute go on to commit more crime? What’s the recidivism rate for their clientele? How many false or vindictive prosecutions did they pursue?
Nobody ever looks at these assholes and asks the question “Hey, what did that political figure get right, and what did they get wrong…?”
On that basis alone, Joe Biden should have been banned from public office back in the 1990s. The fact that Obama picked him as running mate? Telling, very, very telling. Old Joe has been on the wrong side of every public policy question of the last fifty years, and the fact that he still has a “political career” is testimony to why we need to enact lifetime government service limitations. Who the hell keeps voting for him? They have to be halfwits… Or, outright suicidal.
We ought to limit every citizen of the US to a maximum of five years, cumulatively calculated, for any government position above about the level of shop foreman. I’d go even further: You work for the government in a career status? Buh-bye to the right to vote during your career. Government service means you don’t get to vote on your own paycheck, or for someone who can. Every other job? Five years, gone. I don’t care about “experience”; all “experience” has gotten us is a bunch of assholes that think they’re better than the rest of us, lording it over their “inferiors”. You have to go back to the bad old days of the European aristocracy before you can find supercilious assholes like all too many of our “public servants”. Government should not be a career; that just encourages people to become bigger and more powerful pricks. The biggest indictment of the FBI I can think of? How the fuck did J. Edgar Hoover manage to spend nearly fifty damn years as its head, without being replaced? Can you think of any other agency, ever, that had a similarly placed creator and head? It’s like Beria in the Soviet Union, or something…
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The overwhelming amount of BO produced by the residents would be considered a war crime.