The three men trying to remove Tarrant County District Clerk Thomas “Tom” Wilder have many things in common.
They are all involved in years-long divorce or child support battles. They are filing pro se — meaning without a lawyer. And they all feel they have been wronged by the justice system, particularly by family courts.
They are trying to remove Wilder, a Republican, using Chapter 87 of the Texas Local Government Code, which allows for the removal of certain public officials when they’ve shown misconduct or incompetency. The law allows a citizen to ask a judge to approve a jury trial on whether to remove the official…