How does a “US District Judge” get pay in that capacity from a “State”? Your assertion raises doubt from a different angle.
If it is the case that he’s getting something from the UNT connected with his past career as a state jurist, and something else from Uncle Sam connected with his later career as a Federal jurist, this looks even MORE damning, not less. A state good-old-boy was raised by a Demon-rat president to a stature where he carried on as a king for the benefit of the interests he once had known.
I’m not sure this would fly even with all of the left wing of the USSC.
He doesn't, and no one said he did.
If it is the case that he’s getting something from the UNT connected with his past career as a state jurist,
He never worked as a judge for the state. Look up his bio. He did work as an assistant county attorney in Texas, but that may have been on a county payroll, not the state.