Judge john dietz biography
The Interview: Texas Judge John Dietz on School Finance.
Texas Observer: When the Texas Supreme Court held the school funding system was constitutional, the justices spent plenty of time explaining why your ruling was wrong.
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What did you think about theirs?
John Dietz: Well, I don’t think they thought too much of my judgment, and I didn’t think too much of their decision. The way I viewed it was, [in the past] the Supreme Court has said this system needs to be fixed and you need to fix it now.
The Legislature has never done that, unless you make them. They want to be told to do this because it gives them cover. I think that was an attempt, in my opinion — and it’s not a learned opinion — to get out of the school-finance litigation business altogether.
Judge john dietz biography
“Somebody ought to sit there and say, ‘Kids, pool your lunch money together and see if you can’t hire a lobbyist.’”
Nobody’s ever followed that law. So it’s always guesswork as to how much an a