Under Pressure, Prosecutor in Texas Won’t Run Again | New York Times

The following quote from the beleaguered Texas prosecutor proves that Texas politics has earned every bit of mockery that it has received. 

Mr. Rosenthal has sought to keep the e-mail messages sealed, citing “zones of privacy” carved out by the United States Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 ruling overturning the state’s ban on sodomy — although Mr. Rosenthal had argued the case for Texas and the legality of the anti-sodomy laws.