Chief Judge Sought to Move New Appointee Out of Texas Courthouse

The chief judge of a Texas federal trial court sought to move a newly appointed judge out of her courthouse over a personal issue, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The dispute, which has played out privately for weeks, saw Chief Judge Alia Moses attempt to move Ernest Gonzalez out of the Western District of Texas’s Del Rio division he was appointed to, said the two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic. Moses’s attempt to have Gonzalez serve out of the courthouse in Austin upset ...