She wasn't following the law. She didn't even know the law. Instead of looking into it herself, she left it up to renters to figure out if they were covered by the eviction moratoriums.
In Travis County, which includes Austin, eviction courts reopened June 2, and soon Williams was hearing the case of the renter who owed more than $4,000. During the hearing, the judge was asked whether the renter might be covered by the moratorium, which doesn’t expire until late July. But Williams shrugged off the question. (The Washington Post viewed the hearing online.)
“I am not familiar with that, but if someone will show me the law on that, I will certainly entertain that,” she responded. “Right now, I am going to give them the eviction … as unfortunate as it is.”
According to a search on Fannie Mae’s website, the building is covered by the moratorium.
She didn't even look into it because she wanted to throw helpless people out of their homes. She gets off on the power.
Williams said in an interview with The Post that she “misspoke” and always advises renters they can appeal her ruling. She is “very sympathetic when it comes to evictions,” Williams said, but landlords can also be hurt in the process.
A few days after that hearing, Austin announced it would reinstate its local eviction moratorium after Texas coronavirus cases spiked. The evictions Williams had approved are now on hold.
“Part of the problem with these moratoriums is that there is no enforcement. It is up to the courts to know what is required,” said Emily A. Benfer, director of the Health Justice Advocacy Clinic at Columbia Law School, which has been tracking evictions during the pandemic.
Only 15 states require landlords to verify that their buildings aren’t covered by the federal moratorium, leaving it to renters to find out and enforce the law, she said.
Juanita Herrera DeLeon says she told her landlord in April that she wouldn’t be able to pay the nearly $600 monthly rent on her San Antonio apartment after losing her job at a bakery. Herrera DeLeon says she hasn’t received her $1,200 stimulus check and says she gets a busy signal when she calls to apply for unemployment benefits. “We were in lockdown; there was nothing I could do,” she said.

True.
Statutes lag reality. Given the transformational power of Covid 19 in out society, it is arguably immoral for the law to be enforced without some kind of safety net in place to collect those forced into homelessness due to job loss caused by the pandemic.
Stop.

The judge was just following the law.

This judge sounds like a total ****ing ****.
Gone

The article says all the evictions that judge approved are now on hold. If they get approved, those people will be forced to live in a homeless shelter, where they will most likely be infected with covid. If they die, that judge should be charged with murder.