Liberal Texas District Attorney Likely Safe From Removal Bid

A Democratic Texas district attorney likely has thwarted a Republican bid to oust him from office under a new removal law pushed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R).

Jose Garza, the district attorney in Travis County, doesn’t have a policy of refusing to prosecute crimes related to drugs or abortion, a prosecutor appointed to investigate wrote, in a motion to dismiss June 7. The special prosecutor, Jim Nichols (R) of Bell County, asked that the case be dismissed with prejudice.

The judge who tapped Nichols to investigate hasn’t said if he’ll grant the motion.

Garza, a liberal in Austin, is ...