A lawyer with zero cases in front of this judge emailed him asking for an apology after seeing the video of him berating an IT worker. The judge's response: accuse him of an ex parte communication and threaten him with contempt. That's not jurisprudence. That's a petty authoritarian using a bench as a weapon to punish criticism. The Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association Strike Force is showing up to make sure this doesn't end with a veteran lawyer in cuffs for exercising his First Amendment rights against a thin-skinned elected judge who can't handle accountability.