Clint is Board Certified in Criminal Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization—a designation held by fewer than 140 lawyers in all of Texas.
As a prosecutor, Clint has been lead counsel for over 350 appeals, conducted more than 40 oral arguments, and helped with too many trials to keep count. He has played significant roles in some of the most high profile cases in Harris County.
Since 2016 Clint has been a regular columnist for the Texas District and County Attorneys Association journal, The Prosecutor. In these columns, dubbed “As the Judges Saw It,” he has explained important opinions from the Court of Criminal Appeals, giving readers historical context and predicting the future impact of these cases.
Judicial Philosophy:
Clint is committed to originalism and will be a justice in the mold of Thomas and Alito.
When interpreting a constitution or a law, a judge must respect its original meaning. A judge who “interprets” a law to mean something else is legislating from the bench.
Clint will be a justice in the mold of Thomas and Alito. He follows what’s called “original meaning originalism,” meaning he interprets the law by giving the words the meaning they had at the time they were adopted.
As Justice Alito has explained: “Originalism is the idea that the Constitution has a fixed meaning; it doesn’t change. It means what people would have understood it to mean at the time it was written.”
As a prosecutor Clint has worked on dozens of appeals involving novel questions of constitutional law. As a justice, he will use his extensive experience and knowledge of legal history to write opinions that respect the original public meaning of the texts he interprets
Source: https://www.clintforjustice.com/
