The removal of two longtime municipal judges in Irving has at least one of them claiming it was retaliation.
Those judges opposed a city decision to start sending people arrested for DWI and marijuana possession to the Dallas County Jail instead of keeping them in the Irving city jail.
For 14 years, Laura Anderson served as a municipal court judge in Irving alongside Rodney Adams, who had been in the position even longer.
“For 14 years, I feel like I’ve been everybody’s mother and Judge Adams has been everybody’s father,” Anderson said.
But the two judges have just recently been unceremoniously relieved of their jobs by the Irving City Council.
Back in May, Irving city leaders decided to start transporting those arrested for marijuana possession and DWI to the Dallas County Jail instead of just holding them in the Irving city jail.
It didn’t sit well with the judges who say it violated the right to bail without unnecessary delay.