What is Sparks' motive for this, anyway? Do you have any cites to show he's a lib symp? I know that being appointed by Bush 1 doesn't guarantee conservativism, but there were no shortage of TX conservatives to appoint to the bench (vs. New Hampshire crypto-liberalism of the Souter type.)
If you know that this guy has a reputation for favoring Democrats or liberals in Texas, post it here. If not, you're blowing smoke.
The guy originally ran for a political position as a Dem.
Look. I saw the State of Mass flag on your page. So we can understand if you don't know Texas Politics.
But pushing it don't help ya
The guy originally ran for a political position as a Dem.
Look. I saw the State of Mass flag on your page. So we can understand if you don't know Texas Politics.
But pushing it don't help ya
The guy originally ran for a political position as a Dem.
Look. I saw the State of Mass flag on your page. So we can understand if you don't know Texas Politics.
But pushing it don't help ya
What a blowhard comment talking about blowing smoke. You're not from Texas and you are second-guessing those of who know these liberals from years of their works - Sparks is definitely a liberal judge, if you go by his work product.
That being said, his reuling was straight up interpretation of 'eligibility', could go either way ideologically, but suspicious in who it helped.
Sam Sparks has helped Liberals on many other cases, like redistricting and affirmative action. IMHO, he's a liberal Judge. Examples:
Here is a case where Sam Sparks went to bat for Planned Parenthood but got slapped down:
"he judge's ruling lifts an injunction that prevented the enforcement of a Texas budget provision that blocked federal family planning funding from going to state family planning clinics that provide abortion services (Khanna, Houston Chronicle, 3/16). The ruling orders U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, who issued the injunction in 2003, to re-examine the issue and dismiss the injunction, the San Antonio Express-News reports. However, until Sparks is able to review the case, the state Department of Health will continue to honor the injunction and provide federal funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates and other abortion providers, a department official said, according to the Express-News (Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 3/17)."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=21545
Sparks was also overrruled by the 5th circuit in the famous Hopwood case:
After an eight day bench trial in May of 1994, Judge Sparks issued his ruling on August 19, 1994. He determined that the University could continue to use the racial preferences which had been at issue in the litigation.[2]. In his ruling he noted that while it was "regrettable that affirmative action programs are still needed in our society," it was a still "a necessity" until society could overcome its legacy of institutional racism. Thereupon, the four plaintiffs appealed the case to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (which heard appellate oral arguments in the case on August 8, 1995).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopwood_v._Texas