TX House Passes Bill To Oust Pro-Choice Prosecutors

The Texas Tribune reports:

Locally elected prosecutors who do not enforce certain laws could be removed from office under a bill approved by the Texas House of Representatives on Friday. The bill passed 97-51, -and will now move to the Senate. Republican-led House Bill 17 is a response to elected district and county attorneys in Texas’ large, left-leaning counties who have said they will not enforce the state’s abortion laws and seem disinterested in pursuing election fraud cases.

“The purpose of this bill is to eliminate politics from prosecution,” bill author state Rep. David Cook [photo], R-Mansfield, said while on the House floor Thursday. Elected prosecutors cannot be impeached by the Legislature or face recall elections. They can be removed only after the filing of a removal petition that accuses the district attorney of “incompetency, official misconduct or intoxication.”

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#Texas prosecutors who do not enforce certain laws could be removed from office under a bill approved by the Texas House. The bill is in response to district attorneys in left-leaning districts who have said they will not prosecute “abortion crimes.” https://t.co/Ts9o9W30Bm

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