You remember Kenneth Law don’t you? He’s the Chief Justice for the Third Court of Appeals. He’s currently got a criminal and ethics complaints filed against him for violating the Texas Election Code during the course of this election. He was also a judge on the panel who took two years to decide that money laundering is okay as long as you use checks and not cash.

Well, the Austin American-Statesman recently endorsed his opponent for another reason. Justice Law just doesn’t do his job very well. It points out that he’s let the court become politicized, they are slow at issuing opinions, and that he’s the slowest producer of them all.

A survey by the Austin Bar Association bears this out. Of the five justices on the 3rd Court of Appeals, Law has the lowest score among them for whether or not he is hard-working. More that half of the answers given said he needs to improve. He also receives the lowest score among the justices over whether he correctly applies the law.

Does Texas really need a lazy judge who incorrectly applies the law when he does get to work?