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Texas Admonishes Judge For Posting Facebook Updates About Her Trials
An anonymous reader writes: Michelle Slaughter, a Galveston County judge, says she will appeal a public admonition from state officials that criticized her Facebook posts about cases brought before her court. From the article: "The State Commission on Judicial Conduct ordered Michelle Slaughter, a Galveston County judge, to enroll in a four-hour class on the 'proper and ethical use of social media by judges.' The panel concluded that the judge's posts cast 'reasonable doubt' on her impartiality. At the beginning of a high-profile trial last year in which a father was accused of keeping his nine-year-old son in a six-foot by eight-foot wooden box, the judge instructed jurors not to discuss the case against defendant David Wieseckel with anyone. 'Again, this is by any means of communication. So no texting, e-mailing, talking person to person or on the phone or on Facebook. Any of that is absolutely forbidden,' the judge told jurors. But Slaughter didn't take her own advice, leading to her removal from the case and a mistrial. The defendant eventually was acquitted of unlawful-restraint-of-a-child charges."
I wish to subscribe to her twitter feed.
I especially want to know how stupid the defendant is in the most salient cases and how incompetent the prosecutor is. And pix too pls.
Thanks!
When it comes to Texans and Judges, they both think the rules apply to somebody else.
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is going "DAMN!!" right about now.
I wish to subscribe to her twitter feed.
I bet that maintaining a Twitter and Facebook presence will help with her re-election campaign.
Also, she's not bad looking as far as judges go. In American politics, good looks count for a lot.
Meanwhile, Slaughter emerged on top from a field of four Republicans, which includes Mallia, but she too did not earn the more than 50 percent vote to win her respective race.
Slaughter accumulated 10,015 votes while Mallia finished the race with 7,654.
Mallia was first elected as a Democrat in 2000, but switched to the GOP in November.
Their rivals, Zachary Maloney and Paul Lavalle, combined for approximately 12 percent of the vote.
Slaughter is actually the perfect name for a judge in Texas. I bet she got 3,000 votes for her last name alone.
And Maloney sounds too much like baloney, that poor guy was doomed from the start. Why did he even run? I have no idea.
Is anyone else curious how the guy fit his [presumably 3-dimensional] son into a two-dimensional (6'x8') "box"?
The summary (didn't bother to read the article) doesn't understand the point of not letting jurors talk about the trial to others. Its not so they don't give out trial details to the public, its so the public doesn't give them things from outside the court.
The judge ISN'T BOUND by that and is in fact REQUIRED BY LAW to hear things first (when requested by attorneys) to verify if its even okay for the jury to hear it. The judge posting on Facebook is not a problem for the trial itself, its just unprofessional, trials are public you know, unless deemed otherwise by the judge.
Telling the jurors not to talk to others about the case doesn't make it a private case, its just normal to not have the jurors getting data from other places.
The mistrial was for entirely different reasons if anyone bothered to know anything about the actual trial.
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I've always found the use of "slut" in the pejorative to be a curious thing. Don't most single men want a woman that will have sex with them without a whole lot effort and without having to have something as burdensome as a relationship with them in order to get it?
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When it comes to Politicians of all kinds including Judges and Law Enforcement, they both think the rules apply to somebody else.
Had to fix that for you. You could not have possibly missed out on Baltimore, NYC, Ferguson, California, etc.. etc...
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The title of this story would have been better as Ars writes a poor researched story to bash Texas judge.
hell the writer couldn't be bothered to find out the judge's first name or or the name of the fathe in the 'boy in the box' case.
The remarks she made online were basically innoucous, and the judges she was sanctioned on were all probably from Austin.
What is reward if you don't do any work for it?
Don't most single men want a woman that will have sex with them without a whole lot effort
Sure. But just with them though.
There's no allure to the woman who also slept with their best friend, and the mailman, and the neighbor, and the guy at 7-11, that weirdo on the bus...
Your "opinions" are all made up nonsense based on conjecture and probably some kind of mental disorder. Where are you getting this world view of liberals running around rampant calling conservative women sluts inbetween feminist protests? You need to calm down, man.
Men almost never use the term; women are the ones who say it.
You want so badly to believe that you are bravely defying a cabal of sinister persecutors.
But you know that you are not, and that given the opportunity, you never would.
Selfie taken while at the bench, duck-faced, straining to turn around to catch both the defense & prosecution in the background with the caption, "About to sentence the schmuck to death! #selfie #yolo"
Just say no!
acho, presiding! BITCH!
Men almost never use the term; women are the ones who say it.
Your MRA confirmation bias is showing.
Slaughter presiding...
Where are you getting this world view of liberals running around rampant calling conservative women sluts inbetween feminist protests?
Where indeed?
Why It's Not Smart to Call Women Conservatives 'Whores'
When Alan Grayson called a female corporate lobbyist a "K-Street whore" -- and was attacked as crude and sexist at the same time that he was lauded as gutsy and honest -- he played a role in a familiar script: hero of the left (MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher) attacks female villain (Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin) using sexist language. Progressive feminists soul-search about liberal misogyny. Mainstream media talk about sexism for 5 seconds. Then the media move on, and no one learns a thing. Repeat.
It happened again just two weeks ago, when Olbermann called Malkin a "big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it" during the "Worst Person in the World" segment of Countdown. The creepily fleshy insult followed Olbermann's rendition of Malkin's e-mails....
So there's obvious problem No. 1 with leftist firebrands dipping into sexist imagery and language to bash conservative women: nothing's more fun than highlighting the hypocrisy of your opponents.
The war on conservative women
If I had a dollar for every time libs have called me a "Manila whore" and "Subic Bay bar girl," Iâ(TM)d be able to pay for a ticket to a Hollywood-for-Obama fundraiser. To the HuffPo left, whore is my middle name.
Self-serving opponents argue that such attacks do not represent "respectable," "mainstream" liberal opinion about their conservative female counterparts. But it was feminist godmother Gloria Steinem who called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator." It was NOW leader Patricia Ireland who commanded her flock to only vote for "authentic" female political candidates. It was Al Gore consultant Naomi Wolf who accused the late Jeane Kirkpatrick of being "uninflected by the experiences of the female body."
It was Matt Taibbi, now of Rolling Stone magazine, who mocked my early championing of the tea party movement by jibing: "Now when I read her stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of (redacted) in her mouth. It vastly improves her prose."
It was Keith Olbermann, then at MSNBC and now at Al Goreâ(TM)s Current TV, who wrote on Twitter that columnist S.E. Cupp was "a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does" and who called me a "mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it." He stands by those remarks. Olbermann has been a special guest at the White House.
Some of us have not forgotten when liberal Wisconsin radio host John "Sly" Sylvester outrageously accused GOP Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch of performing "fellatio on all the talk-show hosts in Milwaukee" and sneered that she had "pulled a train" (a crude phrase for gang sex). (Earlier, he called former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a "black trophy" and "Aunt Jemima.")
Or when MSNBC misogynist Ed Schultz called talk show host Laura Ingraham a "talk slut" for criticizing Obamaâ(TM)s petty beer summit. Or when Playboy published a list of the top 10 conservative women who deserved to be "hate-f**ked." The article, which was promoted by Anne Schroeder Mullins at Politico.com, included Ingraham, "The View's" Elisabeth Hasselbeck, former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino, GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann and others. Yours truly topped the list with the following description: a "highly f**kable Filipina" and âoea regular on Fox News, where her tight body and get-off-my-lawn stare just scream, 'Do me!'"
And then thereâ(TM)s the leftâ(TM)s war on Sarah Palin, which would require an entire national forest of trees to publish.
You've got me curious as to how it is that you miss this kind of stuff?
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Don't most single men want a woman that will have sex with them without a whole lot effort and without having to have something as burdensome as a relationship with them in order to get it?
Not men with good character.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
You do realise that calling someone a whore isn't necessarily sexist, as it simply means "prostitute" - a person willing to perform various favors for money. That is a perfect description of lobbyists, who are paid to do just that. As for Malkin's insane ramblings, they carry no weight, as she has a terrible track record for intentionally causing offence to others through vitriolic and highly vicious language. Calling someone a slut, however, is sexist, as slut specifically means a woman with many casual sexual partners.
Of course you don't realise it, as you are blinded by the whole left/right spectrum, as it makes things so easy for you. Not having to think for yourself is fun, right?
Given that the vast majority of prostitutes are women, and also given how the use of a pejorative as a modifier is designed to attach characteristics associated with that word to both subjects being tied together with it, it's not a stretch to see how saying something like, "Ethel is a Wall Street Whore" can imply the use of whore in the original intent of the word. After all, isn't that the point of using such words?
There are other words that one could use instead of whore when paid sex and prurient submission are not the topics at hand. Words like stooge, lackey, tool, mouthpiece, blowhard, and others convey the point too.
I don't see a reason to use gender-inflected words to demean someone when their actions aren't gender-derived. I also don't see a reason for manufactured outrage when someone attempts to take someone else's words out of context, like the Sarah Palin lipstick / lipstick on a pig silliness several years ago.
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Wow. "no true Scotsman" fallacy in the context of the sexual mores of women and the men that might appreciate them.
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"Slut" is a term liberals use on conservative women
If someone uses "slut" as a sexist insult, they're not what I would call a liberal, but I know the US has its own interpretations of the English language when it comes to politics.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
She is a liberal communist no doubt.
I forget, are they better or worse than the illiberal communists?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
It would be bad, except trials are public events; so they're admonishing the judge for writing about a public event.
Wow, a fallacious application of "no true Scotsman" in the context of morality. What a "surprise."
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
> I also don't see a reason for manufactured outrage
Then maybe you should bite your tongue.
Ah yes, the "no true Scotsman" argument".
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