Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Amid ongoing allegations by two Dallas County commissioners against a number of Dallas county criminal court judges, the judges – all black women – began fighting back this week, According to the Dallas Morning News. For months commissioners John Wiley Price and J.J. KIch have accused them of “not working since the pandemic began.”
The judges released a 4-page statement and video dubbed ‘Speaking Truth to Power.’ In the video the narrator – Pastor Fred Haynes of Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas, says that commissioners’ allegations are based on bad data that does not reflect state Supreme Court changes to judicial proceedings during the pandemic.
The judges say that they continued to work virtually, disposing of nearly 70-thousand cases.
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