Panel clears justice who backed Miers
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A three-judge panel in Fort Worth has dismissed the reprimand of a Texas Supreme Court justice who publicly endorsed his friend Harriet E. Miers after her short-lived U.S. Supreme Court nomination.
In a ruling announced Friday, the panel of appeals court judges said Nathan L. Hecht did not violate state rules that bar judges from lending their office’s prestige to boost the private interests of themselves or others, and from using their names to endorse candidates for office.
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