Tarrant County Judge James Munford has earned the nickname the "Gun Grabbing Judge of Texas" for his anti-gun rights judicial activism, However Judge Munford is also known as an anti-spanking judicial activist as well.
In fact, Open Carry Texas, in a 2018 statement on Judicial activism, spoke out not only against Judge Munford's anti-gun judicial activism, but also his anti-spanking judicial activism, saying "It appears that Judge Munford has issued other unsolicited orders
involving parents’ rights to discipline children as is permissible under
state law."
In his column in the New Your Post in 2014 Kyle Smith wrote:
Prediction: In 10 years, it’ll be illegal to spank your
kids.
Progressivism’s never-ending zeal to intrude into our lives,
bust up families and force us all to march to its grim beat means that
yesterday’s absurdity turns into today’s hot topic in lefty opinion magazines,
which turns into tomorrow’s law.
If the people resist such a change — if an actual statute
can’t be passed — that matters little. Judges will simply impose their vision
on us, chiding us all for not having the imagination to recognize that what
looks like a radical new policy was there all along, lacking only a wise
interpreter to come along to clarify it.
(Kyle Smith; Why liberals will try to outlaw spanking; New
York Post; July 26, 2014)
This is the general liberal method of operation. If their leftist agenda cannot pass at the
ballot box, then they will force that agenda upon us thru activist courts which
legislate from the bench.
This is not just happening in other countries or in blue
states, it is happening right here in Texas.
And not just in blue counties, this is happening right here in deep red Tarrant
County!
This blogger has obtained such a court order signed by
Associate Judge James Munford! In Tarrant County, James Munford’s court is
one of these activist courts that legislate from the bench. As
I documented in a previous blog, Texas law
allows a parent to spank and reasonably discipline their child. This is a basic parental right.
Yet Munford’s court wrote an order, not requested by either parent, which not only prohibits
both parents from spanking their child, but from even sending their child to
bed without dinner… or even dessert! In
fact the court order would even prohibit a parent from assigning their child
extra chores!
The court order states:
There shall be no corporal punishment of the
child[ren]. The child[ren] shall not be
hit, slapped, spanked at any time. There
shall not be any physical contact with a child.
In addition, a parent shall not use any form of punishment
that would require physical style punishment or an extreme style of
punishment. For example, pushups, chin-ups,
running laps, physical restraints, withholding food etc.
A parent may only use non physical means to discipline the
child[ren] such as grounding, removal of privileges or “time out”.
This is a bunch of liberal drivel we have come to expect to
come out of a California court, not a Texas Court, and especially not one in Tarrant
County!
You might have thought that such liberal nonsense would only
come from a Democrat. But not so, Associate
Judge James Munford is an anti-spanking judicial activist, legislating from the
bench against a parent’s rights to reasonably discipline their child in
accordance with Texas law. Munford does
not uphold Texas law, he replaces it with his own liberal anti-spanking anti-child
discipline agenda!
Judge Munford will be up for reelection in in the 2022 elections. We
need to be getting prepared now to make sure that the Gun Grabbing Judge
of Tarrant County, and judges like him, are "primaried" and voted out
of office in 2022.
