Ex-Bush aide named to state high court

[Judi Lynn]

Aug. 24, 2005, 10:07PM

Ex-Bush aide named to state high court
Willett says he will recuse himself from upcoming decision on public school finance
Associated Press

AUSTIN - Republican Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday named attorney Don Willett, a former aide to President Bush who helped establish his faith-based programs, to fill a vacancy on the Texas Supreme Court.

Willett most recently has been chief legal counsel to Attorney General Greg Abbott.

"I accept this appointment with gladness and gusto and gratitude," Willett said. "I will work my heart out every single day to get it right, with modesty, with a rock-solid devotion to the rule of law and with an unflinching conviction that a judge's supreme duty is to interpret and apply law and not create it."

Perry said Willett, 39, is a bright legal scholar who understands that the role of a judge is to interpret the law, "not create it from the bench."
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[EST]

1. This is all such bullshit.

Activist judges are, by definition, anything besides right wing hairballs.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1723862