Jenevein v. Willing

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Pickering is inapplicable “for sorting the free speech rights of employees elected to state office”
• concluding that Pickering is inapplicable “for sorting the free speech rights of employees elected to state office”
• holding that Texas's judicial ethics canon that prohibited the \appearance of impropriety\ failed strict scrutiny as applied to a judge who spoke publicly about a case pending in another court
• declining to “draw directly upon the Pickering-Garcetti line of cases” when reviewing restrictions on a sitting judge’s speech to his constituency; “as an elected holder of state office, his relationship with his employer differs from that of an ordinary state employee”
• “as an elected holder of state office, his relationship with his employer differs from that of an ordinary state employee”
• “We are persuaded that the preferable course ought not draw directly upon the Pickering-Garcetti line of cases for sorting the free speech rights of employees elected to state office.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).