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Remember that effort by Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht to have the state pay his legal bills after he challenged a judicial sanction for promoting Harriet Miers' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Well, never mind.
The two Republican sponsors of bills to reimburse Hecht with taxpayer dollars have withdrawn the legislation. They changed their minds after The Dallas Morning News reported last week that Hecht had solicited campaign donors for the money. Hecht told us he'd collected the full $340,000 from political contributors to pay his legal bills -- but said he still thought the state should pay.
Not so much, said Sen. Jeff Wentworth of San Antonio and Rep. Tony Goolsby of Dallas. They've pulled their bills.
The donor list will be made public in July when the next round of campaign finance reports are due.