Texas judicial experts are questioning Judge Dianne Hensley’s legal strategy to sue over her sanction for refusing to officiate same-sex marriages.

A judge can appeal a judicial misconduct sanction to a special court of review, but Hensley, a justice of the peace in McLennan County, instead filed a civil lawsuit alleging that the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct and all of its officers and commissioners are violating her religious freedom under Texas law.

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