Inadvertent mistake costs Texas judge his job
HOUSTON, TEXAS — We all have days where we make a mistake at work, and one Houston civil court judge found that out the hard way in April when he accidentally resigned, according to the Washington Post.
William McLeod went online to announce he’d run for the Supreme Court in Texas, saying he wanted to “make a difference.”
However, he inadvertently violated the state’s constitution which considers any declaration of candidates for another office an automatic abdication of the current position.
“I messed up,” said McLeod. “The mistake was it was an archaic 180-page document that I did not know contained this particular provision. I guess I did not scour everything that could possibly disrupt a run.”
After realizing his error, McLeod retracted the announcement, saying he’d rather stay on as county judge. But the attorney’s office has told him there’s no going back.
