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3 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judges fall to Ken Paxton-backed candidates on Super Tuesday


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2024 Mar 6, 8:52am   126 views  5 comments

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Three judges on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals were ousted by candidates endorsed by Attorney General Ken Paxton, who targeted the court after it ruled against him in a 2021 case.

Former Dallas appeals court justice David Schenck, Waco attorney Gina Parker and Richardson attorney Lee Finley were projected to defeat incumbents for the Presiding Judge, Place 7 and Place 8 seats on the state’s highest criminal court, according to the Associated Press.

This year’s primary presented the first opportunity for Paxton to attempt to oust some of the eight judges who ruled in 2021 the attorney general cannot unilaterally prosecute election law violation cases without district attorney permission.

Paxton has decried the ruling for years, arguing the court stripped him of his right to prosecute what he says is rampant voter fraud in the state.


https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-court-criminal-appeals-ken-paxton-backed-candidates-2024-primary/



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1   UkraineIsTotallyFucked   2024 Mar 6, 12:58pm  

Texas voters on Tuesday handed more power to the insurgent wing of the Republican Party in an expensive and vengeful primary election, punishing GOP lawmakers, judges and a House speaker who defied hard-right state leaders and their supporters in recent years.

The shockwaves rippled up and down the ballot. Most notably, Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, was forced into a runoff with a well-funded challenger, David Covey, after being targeted by ultra-conservative donors and activists, who faulted the second-term speaker for declining to stop the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton last May.

“What a HORRIBLE night it has become for the corny establishment in Austin,” Michael Quinn Sullivan, publisher of the ultra-conservative Texas Scorecard, wrote on X as the returns came in.


https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/06/texas-primaries-gop-incumbents-defeated/

@Patrick tried to upload an image this time. Same problem. (See my previous DM to you if you haven't akready.)
2   Patrick   2024 Mar 6, 1:01pm  

@UkraineIsTotallyFucked Please email me the photo, or a link to it on some other site. I want to see if I can reproduce the bug.
3   Patrick   2024 Mar 6, 1:06pm  

Here it is when I upload it:


4   UkraineIsTotallyFucked   2024 Mar 6, 1:21pm  

Now it works for me too.


5   Ceffer   2024 Mar 6, 4:39pm  

Now, all they have to do is nuke Crawford and flood the Bush Nazi escape tunnels and Texas will be back on track to protecting the borders.

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