Juanita Jean is not amused by Greg's stupidity http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/06/20/the-cost-of-being-a-cowboy/
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott thinks he’s Texas Tough.
He ain’t.
And he ain’t nowhere near smart enough to be Governor.
Here’s how this goes in people language instead of lawyer language:
Three plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Texas in a Voting Rights Act dispute. Wendy Davis was one of them. They won in front of a three judge panel in Texas. Attorney General Greg Abbott’s side lost.
So, the lawyers on the winning side asked that the State of Texas pay their legal fees because the State of Texas was wrong, wrong, wrong.
Attorney General Abbott decided to go with the “oh those gnats!” legal argument.
It did not work. At all.
“Rather than engage the fee applicants, Plaintiff Texas basically ignores the arguments supporting an award of fees and costs,” Collyer writes, adding that the state “expresses indignation at having to respond at all, and presumes that the motion for attorney fees is so frivolous that Texas need not provide further briefing in opposition unless requested.”
Bottom line: Collyer said she would “award $466,680.36 to the Davis Intervenors, $597,715.60 to the Gonzales Intervenors and $32,374.05 to the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches.”
Okay, so one million dollars of taxpayer money goes to lawyers because Greg Abbott wanted to play smartass.
The judge also called it “arrogant and ineffective lawyering.” Yep, that pretty much sums up Greg Abbott.
Greg is a really bad lawyer
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