Headline: The Texas Tribune, 5/12/2025
Eleanor Klibanoff reports on the crazy that is the :
The bill as approved by the Senate contains many provisions that legal experts say might spark a lawsuit challenging it on constitutional grounds. But the bill also says it cannot be challenged in state court, an “outlandish, shocking” proposition, said Dallas attorney Charles Siegel.
“I’ve never seen anything like that in any statute of any kind, anywhere,” said Siegel, a partner at Waters, Kraus, Paul and Siegel. “It’s just crazy.”
The bill says no state judge has jurisdiction to rule on its constitutionality, and if they were to do it anyway, they can be personally sued for $100,000. The judge would waive their usual protections of governmental immunity and could not call on the Office of the Attorney General to defend them in court.
Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Republican from Mineola and author of the bill, said the law could still be challenged in federal court, but removing the state judiciary’s oversight of this law is within the Legislature’s purview.
“We make the rules,” he said on the floor of the Senate. “We set the jurisdiction.”
Sen. Nathan Johnson, a Dallas Democrat, called it a “flagrant, brazen transgression of the principle of separation of powers on which this country and state was founded.”
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