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Should Presiding CCA Judge Sharon Keller be Impeached?

Rep. Lon Burnam of Fort Worth, a member of the Texas House of Representatives and perhaps that body's most liberal member, has filed a resolution, HR 480, which amount to articles of impeachment to remove from office Presiding Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller, a jurist who openly declares herself "pro-prosecution," thumbs her nose at innocence claims, and who was the subject of a complaint filed with the Commission on Judicial Misconduct signed by 130 attorneys.To be fair, Burnam's hardly the first to suggest this. And the idea has not been unkindly received: See bloggerly reactions here, here, here, here, here, and here. See also initial MSM coverage of the impeachment articles from Burnam's hometown paper.I certainly understand Lon's motivation; it was the same impulse that drove me to pen an essay in 2007 titled "Why no one likes Judge Keller and she should quit and go home...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).