News & Politics
August 19, 2019
How the Unchecked Power of Judges Is Hurting Poor Texans
Can’t afford a lawyer? Don’t expect justice.
Judges
Arts & Entertainment
January 23, 2013
Bum Steer: The Judge Who Facebooked Johnny Football’s Speeding Ticket
This is no way to revive The Battle of the Brazos: Ennis municipal court judge W. Lee Johnson, a Baylor alumnus, was publicly reprimanded for his none-too-subtle post about the A&M QB’s apparent moving violation.
Feature
January 20, 2013
The Judgment of Sharon Keller
Her decision to close the door on a death row inmate’s final plea has earned the state’s top criminal judge lasting infamy and a misconduct investigation that goes to trial this month. But was she wrong?
Cojones
September 30, 2006
William Wayne Justice
A tip of the hat to risk-taking, barrier-breaking, establishment-tweaking Texans.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 2002
The Craddickal Right
Tom Craddick of Midland wants to be the first Republican Speaker of the House in Texas since 1873. He may already have the votes, but his critics are questioning his tactics.
Last Page
July 31, 1997
Judge Roy Bean
WEST OF THE PECOS THERE IS NO LAW; west of El Paso there is no God.” So went the saying in unsettled West Texas—until the day in 1882 when Roy Bean became a justice of the peace in dusty little Langtry, where the sign over the Jersey Lilly, his combination
Behind the Lines
May 31, 1996
The Tort Tax
No high diving boards at public pools. No cameras in operating rooms. All this and more, thanks to lawyers.
News & Politics
March 1, 1980
The Law West of the Trinity
Justices of the peace, maligned since the days of Roy Bean, don’t operate like other judges. But if lawyers want to get ride of them, they can’t be all bad.