Mark GrahamJudge David HanschenCourthouse News this morning highlights the story of Ginger Weatherspoon, a former assistant attorney general in Greg Abbott's office who claims she was fired after refusing to lie under oath about 254th District Judge David Hanschen. Weatherspoon, who worked from July 2006 through February '08 in the the Office of the Attorney General's child support division, has filed a nine-page whistleblower suit in Dallas County District Court in which she claims she was fire
Late yesterday, we finally caught up with Ginger Weatherspoon, the former assistant attorney general who filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the Office of the Attorney General alleging that she was fired for reporting that supervisors confined her in a room against her will and attempted to coerce perjured testimony from her accusing 254th District Judge David Hanschen of judicial misconduct. The dispute stems from a longstanding disagreement between Hanschen and the OAG concerning the judge
Since the 2006 elections, when the courthouses were flooded with Democratic judges, many of those very same barristers have been trying to put the kibosh on the Dallas Bar Association's judicial evaluation poll. Why come? Well, they claim, among other things, that it's unfair, overtly political, a popularity contest, a poor indicator of judicial performance, too subjective and way too susceptible to grudge voting. They just wanted the danged thing adiosed. They did not get their way: Last wee
Family law judge David Hanschen may have received an "Excellent" job approval rating of just 14 percent on the Dallas Bar Association's 2009 Judicial Evaluation Poll, but he's celebrating a victory in what had been a bitter struggle for him just last year.
After facing off with the Office of the Attorney General over the way the state enforces child support -- which we detailed in this 2008 cover story -- more than a year later, he and the office have collaborated on substantive policy
