Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge

An argument was published on Grits for Breakfast on February 14th a report from the SA Express-News about getting personal benefits through work duties and how it has been considered as corruption allegation against the judge of San Antonio. The judge Angus McGinty is expected to resign for allegations stated on last Friday as federal and courthouse sources confirmed about decreasing the bail on defendants who performed in front of him in bartering of getting personal benefits for his vehicle maintenance. A statement from federal sources showed that this case is related to an investigation the FBI centered on defense lawyer who revealed to the FBI tabs and sources that are used as evidences to reveal about Bexar County Courthouse of some allegations of bribery of judges and others in the criminal justice system. Although this case is taking some hundreds of dollars, as FBI sources stated, but in my opinion I think when a person gets a license, he/she should respect the integrity of the duties that have assigned to. The judge’s already gotten paid for doing his duty and by getting benefits is considered a bribe. One of the reasons why there is a bail to pay, because it is a punishment to the defendant even it is high, so lowering the bail is a breaking the rules and represent dishonesty from the judge side. In this case applying justice is not only on defendants; I mean if you get “behind the scene” personal benefits through your work, which is represent dishonesty, how will you apply justice? 

New Campaign Focuses on Texans in "Coverage Gap"

          On February 7, 2014, The Texas Tribune was published an article about New Campaign Focuses on Texans in Coverage Gap called “Texas Left Me Out” to teach the Texans who are uninsured and are not making enough money to be qualified for tax credit but not qualified for Medicaid. One of the issues that this campaign takes is the Texans with low income can’t find a health care plan in the market they can afford.  The governor of Texas Rick Perry requested to find a waiver, which let the State of Texas to edit the Medicaid program without going to have permission from the federal government. The governor Perry has written a letter to Health and Human Services Commission to pursue a block grant, which means “using the federal dollars as a block grant which allows the state to give amount of money to poor people to buy an insurance plan instead of giving more people Medicaid which is not acceptable by many doctors. The state of Texas denied billions of dollars from the federal government regarding expanding the Medicaid as Billy Hamilton said; as this means the federal government will cover a hundred percent of the Medicaid expansion then by degrees decrease its portion of the cost to ninety percent in ten years. As the lawmakers in Texas and the Texas Association of business, and medical association in Texas drove the lawmakers to expand the Medicaid in 2013 but it is still a problem to get and drag the attention the conservatives in Texas.