I remember when he tried to pick Harris County judges on the basis of whether these judges believed in his religious beliefs. Hotze would select religious idiots to run in primaries against other republican judges who he did not like. I remember that in 2000, Hotze was backing a true idiot against Judge Sharolyn Wood on the grounds that she was a woman and he did not think that women should be judges. Luckily, Judge Wood survived that primary contest.

Hotze is an idiot and this lawsuit is not a big deal. Abbott and the other GOP Attorney Generals did not make these arguments when they attacked the Affordable Care Act. If Hotze's claims had any merit, these claims would have been used by Abbott and the other idiots gop AGs in their lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act

check his website if you don't believe me

Thanks

Charles Kuffner (the Off the Kuff blog) has some good comments about Hotze's lawsuit http://offthekuff.com/wp/?p=52810

I’m not a lawyer, and having read numerous analyses when the first lawsuit was filed about how it was going to get slamdunked by SCOTUS I’m not going to say that it’s bogus and doomed to fail. But I will note that none of Perry, Dewhurst, or Abbott bothered to show up to Hotze’s press conference, and none will be helping out with it. I mean, if Greg “I sue the Obama administration for fun” Abbott isn’t right there holding Hotze’s hand, that suggests to me that maybe he’s not all that high on the merits of the suit. Indeed, Texas Politics adds on about that:

Phillip Martin of the progressive activist group Progress Texas said: “Hotze’s lawsuit appears to be a copy-cat lawsuit of one already filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation. As the Department of Justice has already stated, the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act actually began as House Resolution 3590. It went through a ‘gut and amend’ process in the Senate, and became the law as it is today. In the history of the Supreme Court, only 8 “Origination Clause” cases – like the one presented by the Pacific Legal Foundation and copied, months after the fact, by Hotze – have been heard, and not once has the court invalidated an act of Congress because of it.”