Court keeps sexting ruling, limits Abbott’s power

[TexasTowelie]

The state’s highest criminal court Wednesday declined Attorney General Greg Abbott’s request to reconsider an October ruling that invalidated a law banning sexually explicit cyberchats between adults and minors — and acted instead to limit the power of Abbott’s office.

Abbott had argued that the court’s ruling on the “sexting law” was invalid because his office hadn’t been notified, as required by state law, that the statute had been challenged as unconstitutional. The oversight deprived his office of an opportunity to defend the sexting law, Abbott argued.

But in a unanimous, unsigned opinion released Wednesday, the court threw out the notification law, saying it violated the separation of powers between the legislative and judicial branches of government as required by the Texas Constitution.

The Legislature exerted “undue interference” on courts when it enacted the law in 2011, the opinion said.

More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/court-keeps-sexting-ruling-limits-abbotts-power/nfGnz/ .

[font color=green]Another case that Abbott fails to win and wastes taxpayer resources again.[/font]

[Gothmog]

1. Greg is a bad attorney

Greg is simply a bad attorney. Normally, one does not give an attorney with Greg's horrible track record a promotion

[Melissa G]

2. +1

[DhhD]

3. During the Texas Legislative Session of 2011, a law was made that students could not do

sexting or have any kind of immoral media on their phones at school or at school functions. Why would a Texas AG want to defend allowing sexting? The next school year, school districts disabled Facebook electronically in the area around their campuses. Now many school districts are not allowing students to have a cell phone out on the desk, during class, as students want to play instead of participate in the material to be learned each day.