tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post116282256637204521..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: De-Fund the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals?Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1163082569631025162006-11-09T08:29:00.000-06:002006-11-09T08:29:00.000-06:00The CCA does NOT play an "absolutely essential" fu...The CCA does NOT play an "absolutely essential" function. Most states don't have one. Texas does because the ex-Confederates who wrote the state constitution knew the Union had made controlling each state's Supreme Court a priority, so they segregated Texas' criminal appeals from Yankee control so they could begin what became the Jim Crow practice of using the crmiminal justice system as a means of racial repression.<BR/><BR/>We don't need it. De-fund it. Abolish it. Whaterver. Let's just be done with it. Bad history. Bad present. Nothing but a bad future ahead if it continues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1162849481305777082006-11-06T15:44:00.000-06:002006-11-06T15:44:00.000-06:00Like I say, I'd rather just un-elect the bums, if ...Like I say, I'd rather just un-elect the bums, if somebody'd give me an option to do it.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.com