Wilson County News
Telling the story of what's going on in Wilson County, Texas!
Wilson County News
Judge Richard J. Leon
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
My hero for the week is yet another federal district judge, who is holding the line on the worst of the Trump administration’s excesses. Richard Leon is a former President George W. Bush appointee to the District Court for the District of Columbia. On Thursday, he issued an order at least temporarily blocking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from punishing Democratic Senator Mark Kelly for his role in a video that (rightly and lawfully) reminded active-duty service members not to follow illegal orders. “Rather than trying to shrink the First Amendment liberties of retired service members, Secretary Hegseth and his fellow...