That's the title of an editorial in today's Amarillo Globe-News. LINK
For better or worse, citizens expect their judges to be completely above reproach. Perhaps the public expects too much of them, yet those are the expectations.
A Texas criminal appellate judge, Sharon Keller, has been hit with a $100,000 fine over omissions on her personal financial statements.
Judge Keller is vowing to appeal the fine.
She ought to pay the fine and be done with it.
The fine comes from the Texas Ethics Commission. Keller is no ordinary judge. She's the presiding judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal appellate panel.
Keller has blamed her father for making property purchases behind her back.
But let's be clear: The omissions in question amount to some serious money, about $2.8 million in assessed property value. Who simply forgets that or she possesses property worth that kind of money?
And:
Pay the fine, judge.
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