The all-Republican court has shown some independence from party politics with these two...
Candidates for Texas’ highest courts typically express misgivings about the role of partisan elections to secure a seat on a prestigious judicial body that should be above politics. Our robes are black, they say, not red or blue. Nonetheless, the rules are given to them and run by party they must.from party politics when it decided against Attorney General Ken Paxton, promptly drawing his ire and that of his supporters.
“Now, thanks to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Soros-funded district attorneys will have sole power to decide whether election fraud has occurred in Texas,” PaxtonThe court had based its decision on a clear-cut interpretation of the 1876 Texas Constitution, which was “a deliberate response to the ‘despotic control of the Reconstruction governor.
We share this background as part of a plea to voters to go beyond the R and D after candidate names. In our judicial endorsements, including these for Texas’ highest criminal court, we’ve focused on the candidates’ qualifications, record and temperament first, and then whether their personal, ideological and professional background would bring needed diversity to the bench.The Republican incumbent, Justice Scott Walker, 69, won a six-year term in 2016, promising not to legislate from the bench.
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