Judge Walther’s insolence continues: FLDS kids NOT going home

Schleicher County Texas, you have a huge PR problem.

Your pick for the bench has not only failed to offer an apology for so thoroughly terrorizing FLDS families, something most Americans would do in tears if they had inflicted as much unjustified pain as Judge Walther. No. According to press reports, Walther has gone way beyond in the other direction, demanding things in the CPS settlement agreement that not even CPS had the audacity to request. From the AP:

Under the deal CPS released, the families won’t be able to leave Texas until Aug. 31 but would be allowed to move back to the ranch. It also calls for parenting classes and visits by CPS to interview children and parents in the child abuse investigation.

Walther wanted to remove the August deadline and provide for psychological evaluations of the children. She also wanted it specified that parents can’t travel more than 60 miles from their residence without 48 hours’ notice. She also wanted CPS to have access [free, unannounced entry into their homes between 8 am and 8 pm, indefinitely] to the ranch and the children at all times necessary for any investigation.

All as if the FLDS were the ones in the wrong! And when the FLDS refused to sign off on such ludicrous garbage, Walther pitched a fit, then relented, then demanded that all 38 of the mothers who won at the Texas Supreme Court sign the agreement before she would (even though they could not physically all be there because of travel requirements associated with visiting their kids that Walther herself scattered all over the Texas landscape) and then literally walked off the job without explanation, leaving hundreds of children in limbo for yet another agonizing weekend.

If this is not judicial malpractice, I don’t know what is. Where in heaven’s name is the State Bar of Texas?  Is this how your judges behave on a regular basis?  I think Walther and the nutcase whose hoax call Walther used to start this drama, Rozita Swinton (bizarre video here), have something in common. It’s time that Walther be removed from the bench.