Good news for the Tea Party. A Texas appellate has ruled that just because an anti-tax politician tries to eliminate his own agency by denying it funding, he can’t be removed from office by the government for incompetency.
The decision by Waco’s Tenth Court of Appeals in Harper v. Best is thought the first time that the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act—the Anti-SLAPP statute that allows courts to quickly dismiss cases filed against defendants who speak out on matters of public concern—has been used against the government.
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