Race and judicial politics
The Weekly/Daily Standard has an article which features the Supreme Court elections in Texas. It begins with the extraordinary win of Austin lawyer Steven Wayne Smith over incumbent GOP-favored Bush appointee Xavier Rodriguez in the primary election. The author credits Smith's representation of white applicants to the University of Texas Law School, who were successful in challenging that school's affirmative action policies. This has some resonance in this state, in light of the University of Michigan case, which is expected to be addressed in the U. S. Supreme Court.
The article goes on to depict the problems that the Smith campaign has experienced, post-primary. He has now been charged with making racist remarks, based on an e-mail message which characterized him as "sounding like a Nazi".
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