If even one is bounced, Abbott could appoint a replacement for those in the criminal courts. Again, and Im going to keep harping on this, until you hear the person themselves say it, thats all that it is. San Antonios police unionhas criticized the Justice Charter as an overreach into police policies as well as violations of state and federal law. If they got new information that caused them to reopen the investigation, they wouldnt want to convey to anybody that No, we will never look at this again, Bash said. That would mean that the Republicans netted about 1600 votes, which I need not point out is even farther away from closing the gap. 33K to 35K in 2016 Based upon information to date we believe there were approximately 2,600 or more estimated voters turned away due to running out of ballot paper or machines not working for a period of time, Siegel wrote. During each election year, the HBA distributes a Judicial Preference Poll before the general election, asking members to indicate their preferences for judicial candidates in contested races. 2022 Candidate Endorsements. After losing his gubernatorial bid against Texas Gov. HD126 38,281 21,401 17
United States Representative - U.S. House District 2 Robin Fulford. HD132 60.84% 39.16%
After the introductions in a room at the local community college, a family member started with the groups main question: Will the Legislature raise the minimum age to purchase an assault-style weapon from 18 to 21? That is slightly less than it was in 2018, the last year of straight ticket voting, when nearly 97% of the people who voted cast ballots in these races, plus the two countywide HCDE races; to put it another way, the undervote rate in these races was generally between 2.5 and 3 percent. Every day, police departments decide what theyre going to enforce and what theyre not going to enforce, and this represents the people of San Antonio saying: these are not our priorities for our scarce public dollars, Siegel said.
Progressive groupslast month submitted roughly 38,000 petition signatures to get the proposedcharter amendmentincluded on the May municipal election ballot, a move San Antonio City Attorney Andy Segoviasigned off on last week. Winning takes many forms, after all. JP1 64,850 122,675
This is intended to help introduce the candidates and their experiences to those who plan to vote in March. One of the things were going to have to explore is: Why arent the elected tax assessor-collector and the elected county clerk which are, quite frankly, both Democrats why are they not running the election, where theres some public accountability?. Beto and Collier and Garza had enough money to at least run some ads, while Hays was still running against perhaps the highest-profile (read: got the most negative news for his ridiculous actions) incumbent after those three. Committee appointments are expected to be made in the next couple of weeks. The Y-axis is the percentages. The X-axis is where they are on the ballot, so on the left we start with the appellate races, then go through the district and family courts, then into the county civil, criminal, and finally probate courts. In April 2013, Sanchez joined the Harris County District Attorneys office in the misdemeanor division. I didnt blog about the raid at the time, mostly because I prefer not to think too much about Henry Cuellar. Martin represented clients in both state and federal courts, and has argued cases before the Texas Courts of Appeal throughout the state, as well as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. My first thought is that Im not really clear what these guys are aiming at. HD142 9,167 24,621
After watching Congress attempt to function last week, I cannot imagine why some want Texas to be like D.C, Phelan said. HD130 71.35% 28.65%
HD131 19.20% 76.50% 3.02% 1.28%
HD129 38,545 24,668
The appellate courts cover multiple counties. JP2 22,125 28,127 2,055
Hidalgo 612,111 1,095,479 101,400 36,568
But we dont plan to let him abuse his power. Cities can only nibble around the edges of that, and at their own peril in a state like Texas. He would almost surely run as a Dem in this heavily Democratic precinct. 2023-00955; James Lombardino v. Judge Audrie Lawton-Evans. JP1 71,793 116,463 40
ORourke did not respond to a request for comment on whether he was considering a second Senate run against Cruz. HD142 24.75% 72.77% 2.48%
JP7 16.15% 83.85%
The judge hearing the case is in San Antonio which complicates matters re time to get there and back for hearings. HD140 5,850 12,681 647
Meteorologist Lena Maria gives us a look at what we can expect as we gear up for the opening weekend of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo! JP2 42.30% 53.77% 3.93%
HD140 5,929 12,518
"Several of them are considering election contests.". The 2022 General Election is being held on November 8.
He is now a Managing Partner along with his father, Samuel L. Milledge, Sr. of The Milledge Law Firm, P.L.L.C. This quick dismissal shows these election contests are largely about political posturing and undermining our democratic processes. Mealer 198,286 336,434 40.19% 56.59%
Vacancy of the Hon. HD127 59.88% 36.80% 2.33% 0.99%
The deadline for setting the May ballot is Friday. The HBA Judicial Preference Poll is not an endorsement of any candidate. CC1 29.16% 70.81% 0.03%
It is not clear when the lawsuit will be filed. C Crim 522,321 534,175 49.44% 50.56%
This was an interesting year for multiple reasons the first non-Presidential election since the huge shift towards Democrats in 2018, the first time these judicial incumbents were running for re-election, tons of money being spent by Republicans and their backers to smear Criminal Court judges, the high-profile County Judge race that was closely tied to that same campaign spending, the first non-Presidential year with no straight-ticket voting, coming in a year with the extra-long ballot and so on. Heres the same breakdown for the countywide races: No third party candidates here, just a write-in who got a handful of votes for County Judge, so the percentages mostly add up to 100. Dist Civil 518,475 545,206 48.74% 51.26%
ELECTION ROUNDUP: Who won and who lost in the 2022 midterm elections across Houston and rest of Texas? CC1 65,573 204,223 7,632
HD133 36,406 22,666
HD145 12,368 32,031 1,449
Legal experts on both sides of the political aisle have raised concerns for many years . Are there more parks like Fairfield Lake out there? But Democrats didnt do as well in a number of dark blue districts in 2020 as they had in 2016 and 2018, and as we saw in 2022 it was in those districts where Beto fell short, often well short, of his 2018 performance. HD140 30.99% 65.76% 3.24% 0.02%
HD138 59.58% 40.41% 0.02%
On Wednesday, each of the chambers 31 lawmakers walked to the front of the chamber and drew lots by picking an envelope that held a pill-shaped capsule. You may view the entire Evaluation or you may view selected courts. CC2 101,745 103,117 48
A trial date has not been set yet. Thats an enormous increase over 2015. Andsomeofthemare hoping to give Attorney General Ken Paxton stronger authority to prosecute election crimes, after the states highest criminal appeals court ruled in 2021 that he could not unilaterally take on such cases. HD146 19.66% 77.97% 2.36%
The videos are also posted on YouTube. She is currently a Senior Litigator at the Harris County Public Defenders Office. No big mystery here. Many of them have a tiny number of Houston-specific votes in them, with a much larger contingent of non-Houston votes. Ill have more to say about those Commissioners Court precincts later, so lets put a pin in that for now. I treasure the work we were able to accomplish during the last two years, Evbagharu said in the release. Well, sure, but the Republicans in the Lege, as well as the state courts, have not been shy about limiting cities authority in various matters, so I dont know how confident Id be in that position. It is fair. HD139 12,291 31,372
The two other freshmen, Republicans Kevin Sparks of Midland and Mayes Middleton of Galveston, both drew four-year terms. (*as of 12/5/2021), Education: University of Houston and South Texas College of Law. HD131 18.69% 78.34% 2.96%
JP4 165,760 127,783 8,087
HD142 8,957 24,548 997
Currently, Paxton can only get involved if invited by a district or county attorney, according to the courts ruling.
HD140 32.85% 67.15%
In this context, after the statewide offices and the legislative offices (including the SBOE), there are the judicial races. Experience: Chris Morton worked as Assistant District Attorney with Harris County for four and half years in the Trial Division, prosecuting thousands of cases ranging from the most minor of traffic tickets to the most serious of offensescapital murder. CD38 66.07% 33.91% 0.02%
WHD knocked on about 1500. HD131 6,108 24,414
HD137 35.76% 61.22% 3.02%
A federal judge has handed Texas' elections overhaul a partial defeat days ahead of 2022s first primary. JP7 15.62% 84.38%
Rebeca Huddle (incumbent) TEXAS . Austin, TX, November 3, 2022 Down-ballot races are not typically a hot election topic, but public concerns over rising crime have pushed Harris County's 68 judicial races to the forefront this cycle.. Of these, 60 are for various county criminal, civil, and family courts; four are for appellate court benches;and four are for justices of the peace. Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey, the lone Republican on the court, voted against the measure. None of us. There are also a lot of offices that include parts of Harris and parts of one or more neighbors: CDs 02 and 22, SBOE6, SDs 07 and 17, and all of the Firth and 14th Courts of Appeal benches, of which there will be ten Democratic incumbents on the ballot next year. Harris County has a new system called managed assigned counsel (MAC) that helps a little with keeping anyone from having too many cases, but outside of the occasional news coverage and the State Bar, a process thats completely opaque to most of us, theres little oversight of the system as a whole. All those requests were ignored. Public servants have moved on. At least in those cases, you can make the claim that the Libertarian received votes that might have otherwise gone to the Republican. Generally speaking, she did a couple of points worse. In 2024, all ten of those benches we won will be on the ballot again. 2023-00937; Matthew Dexter v. Judge Genesis Draper. HD129 37,473 24,455 1,607 766
Segovia said that if the amendment is approved, the city would not be able to make any other changes to its charter until the November 2025 election, thanks to a state law restricting the frequency of charter amendments. Thus far, the Harris County Attorney's Office has identified filings by (and we expect more filings to be made today): Mark Montgomery, former candidate for Harris . State and county Republican officials have made several attempts to cast doubt on the results of the November elections in Harris County. Its a matter of execution from here. Harris County 184th Criminal District Court Judge: incumbent Abigail Anastasio and challenger Katherine Thomas. In 2019, I was selected by the newly-elected democrat County Court Judges to be their Staff Attorney, making her the African-American and female in that position. We will have a couple of Houston referenda on the ballot this November so the higher end is more likely to me, but there is a range and a lower end is possible as well. CC4 46.71% 49.40% 2.64% 1.25%
Cuellar declined to be interviewed.
Even under the most ludicrously generous assumptions, the math just plain doesnt work. Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographer. Those members left for Washington, D.C., for weeks to stop the House from being able to do business in an effort to prevent passage of the bill. HD139 12,541 30,343
HD148 16,238 20,657
So if I understand this correctly, the Elections Office could provide these documents on demand, but legally they dont have to until they get an opinion on it from the AGs office. HD128 70.48% 27.96% 1.53% 0.02%
Some Texas voting rights groups worry the Legislature will use the problems in Harris and those lawsuits as an excuse to advance bills such as these. Amanda Reichek. Having a high profile referendum on the ballot helps drive extra turnout. In 2020, Donald Trump only won two State Rep district with 60% or more, HDs 128 and 130, and he won nine overall with HDs 134 and 135 being won by Dems. JP3 37,340 40,840 31
HD132 60.80% 39.20%
What will it take to keep those ten appellate court benches we won in 2018? Candidates Who Do Not Participate in the Evaluation Process Are rated "NR" Judicial candidates are rated by the ISBA - JEC members based on detailed information supplied by candidates, . And the public remains largely in the dark about what set off the investigation. 2023-00927; Bruce Bain v. Judge Corey Sepolio. 2020, in the race for District Judge, 333rd Civil District Court in Harris County, Texas. HD128 71.46% 28.54%
JP4 59.99% 39.99% 0.02%
District Clerk candidate Chris Daniel lost by 25,640 votes, while County Clerk candidate Stan Stanart lost by 34,448 votes. Education: University of Texas at Arlington and University of Texas at Austin. HD144 11,849 14,344
CC3 58.02% 39.60% 2.38%
The chamber passed the overall rules package by a vote of 123-19, with Democrats making up most of the opposition. 2019 Judicial Evaluation Questionnaire Results. CC2 45.75% 51.23% 3.02%
JP4 59.26% 40.74%
Judge Craft is represented by Steve Kherker. JP2 22,460 28,561
HD146 9,172 31,975
While there are no challenges on the Republican ballot in the Texas Primary Election, there are plenty on the Democratic ballot. JP2 21,608 29,498 1,599
A William Wagner, about whom I could find nothing, filed the same for Constable in Precinct 7. 22 GOP Candidates Contest Harris County Elections, Seek Records Inspection. Overall, it looks like Collier and Garza did about as well percentage-wise as Beto did. HD130 70.04% 29.96%
Same shit, different year. However, City Attorney Andy Segovia told reporters Wednesday the most of the provisions are inconsistent with state law and could not be enforced if even if theyre approved by voters. The petition is filed in Harris County, but the case will be heard by a judge from outside the county, according to Menefee's office. Beto versus Abbott Radack 0 71,246 0 794,652, Court R Avg D Avg R pct D pct
She was Chief Prosecutor in the Felony Trial Bureau, the Civil Rights Division, the Post-Conviction Writs division, the Robbery Division. I just want to point out the problem, so we know what were up against. Breaking it up into its components means there will be multiple lawsuits instead of one. As for Beto, Im pretty sure weve seen the last of him on the statewide stage, at least for the foreseeable future. HD147 23.72% 76.25% 0.03%
They added that Cruz would make additional staff hires during that period and that hes already started raising money, including revamping completely the small-dollar operation. Cruz currently has $3.4 million cash on hand. All of the information the City has to provide will be included in the City Managers presentation today to City Council, the Denton Police Department media relations team said in an email Tuesday. Andy Taylor, general counsel for the Harris County GOP, is representing Lunceford. I assume this would go further than that, but its not clear to me exactly how the referendum differs from the existing ordinance. HD143 34.83% 58.86% 4.77% 1.54%
JP4 180,017 119,979 60
As such, if we have the same rate of turnout as we did in 2015, we would see over 311K Houston voters from Harris County, or more than a 40K increase from 2015. The case was dismissed because May failed to timely pay the security of costs required by Texas law. HD139 11,438 31,372 1,145
Mark Herman, Constable Precinct 4 The two big red counties are Brazoria and Galveston, and they have acted distinctly differently over the last few elections: 32K to 36K in 2012 Of the other six races for statewide executive offices, three were similar in nature to the Governors race and three were friendlier to Republicans. HD143 34.02% 63.56% 2.42%
JP1 34.97% 62.30% 2.73%
In 2017, Cruz was recruited to be one of the founding attorneys in the Harris County Public Defenders Office Bail Hearing Division. HD135 17,174 23,491
And whatever else you may think about Dan Patrick, hes not an idiot. Mark Montgomery, former candidate forHarris County Criminal Court at Law No. CC4 107,284 129,131 6,533
If we want to talk about making Texas competitive for Biden, and whoever our 2024 Senate nominee may be, thats the kind of Dem advantage in Harris County were going to need, at a minimum. JP7 12,325 64,437 1,904
HD134 34,947 43,974
A proposed City Charter amendment that seeks to ban police from using no-knock warrants and chokeholds, as well as expand the citys cite-and-release policy for low-level, nonviolent crimes, has enough certified signatures supporting it to appear on the ballot in San Antonios May municipal election. HD135 17,150 22,829
HD134 42.49% 57.51%
We start with 2016. That looks to me to be the effect of the larger Libertarian vote in those races there were about 29K Lib votes in these two races, while there were about 16K third party and write-in votes for Governor. Bun B, Badu, J.J. Watt celebrate RodeoHouston Southern Takeover. It does not make the records confidential (where it would be illegal to disclose the information); it just means the government is not required to disclose the information, Aleshire said.
Restraint and tolerance for any kind of dissent are not in their playbook. HD149 12,214 18,772
JP8 46,854 29,698 2,230
JP1 65,832 117,292 5,140
Going into the rules debate, most attention was on the subject of committee chairs, who have the power to advance legislation or block it from being taken up by the full House. HD128 32,057 12,551 995 399
We do not have any additional information prior to them receiving that work session report.. HD135 42.90% 57.10%
Im going to guess hed run as a Democrat, but I cant say for sure at this time. Maybe other Democratic candidates could get them with the right message, and if they were the right candidates. HD150 34,989 21,381
2009 935,073 1,881,112 49.71%
But I will send out word when I learn more. See here for the background. CC1 26.15% 73.85%
The number of registered voters in Harris County, and thus in Houston, will certainly change between now and November. HD128 31,548 13,748 1,148
And the fact that the furniture dealer is openly looking for any such example, especially those that include people who did actually vote, shows just how desperate and ridiculous and baseless these Republican charges have been all along.). While in her private practice she was chosen as a Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2017 and 2018. If not, Ill be disappointed but not surprised. With the exception of County Judge, which is the first county office to appear, the other county races come after any county judicial elections, which we know in a non-presidential year is another two dozen, on top of all of the state judicial races youve just slogged through. The school security measures have some value, and Id be all right with them for the most part if they were part of a larger deal that included real gun reform, but theyre not. HD129 59.21% 40.79%
HD133 58.20% 40.08% 1.73%
"I'm disappointed to see another losing candidate challenging the results of their election. She handled cases ranging from Class C speeding tickets to non-death Capital Murders. Why shouldnt that continue in the first open-seat Mayoral race since then? The Harris County Young Democrats is proud to endorse this amazing slate of candidates for the 2022 Democratic Primary Election. C Probate 511,900 540,619 48.64% 51.36%, Candidates Houston Not Hou Hou% Not%
Achieving the goal set in item #1 will require an all-hands-on-deck mobilization. I found this to be fascinating, and quite different from the experiences in Bell County and Hays County, not to mention the pre-vote conflicts in San Antonio. The 2022 United States secretary of state elections were held on November 8, 2022, to elect the secretaries of state in twenty-seven states. They were wrong back when they tried this the first time the comptroller and his allies and theyre wrong again now, County Judge Lina Hidalgo said before the court met in executive session Thursday. CC3 227,110 133,538
SD17 58.16% 41.82% 0.02%
2022 TEXAS PRIMARY ELECTION: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO VOTE. HD140 5,685 11,976 991 277
SD18 18,199 17,006 4
There is no reason not to do it, so lets do it.. JP7 16.80% 83.20%
HD142 8,580 25,228 859
HD137 7,690 13,164 650
JP8 49,209 27,703
[1] The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas has jurisdiction in Harris County. Sixty years after the U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright enshrined a persons right to a lawyer in criminal proceedings, data shows that few indigent clients in the country actually get a good one. Texas House leadership on Wednesday shut down a long-building push to ban Democratic committee chairs, deploying procedural legislative maneuvers to defeat multiple proposals on the issue. HD147 22.58% 77.42%
DOWNLOAD: HARRIS COUNTY GOP VOTER GUIDE. Luong then practiced law with two civil trial law firms in Houston. To the extent that it did work, the voters seemed to understand the difference between criminal courts and not criminal courts. CD07 53,108 77,625 29
HD141 18.27% 78.99% 2.72% 0.01%
Luong is also the presiding judge for the Felony Veterans Treatment Court for Harris County, a specialty court that was created to handle felony criminal cases involving veterans. The county commissioners voted to direct the county attorney and (me) to get involved in the beginning to get that question answered, Garza said. HD149 12,365 18,661
HD148 40.88% 56.34% 2.78%
"During the last month, we've had a lot of our candidates that were in very close races that have been talking to us wanting to know the information that we've accumulated and have reported," Siegel said. CC3 63.17% 36.83%
He wondered why the city didnt provide the demographic breakdown of those citations during Hensleys presentation because historically, minorities have been unfairly targeted by law enforcement. JP5 147,642 135,687
Its big, its hard to do, and most importantly now everything that goes wrong is your fault. Every election year, we host educational forums with candidates running for office in Houston and Harris County. Beto versus the spread. In 2008, Jason left his civil practice to accept a position as an Assistant District Attorney in Harris County, where he went on to serve as the Chief Prosecutor in two different County Criminal Courts. Scroll within the result embeds to see all races. Before I begin, please note that all of this involves a lot of back-of-the-envelope math and more than a few assumptions made along the way. Dudding 294,958 255,993 59.69% 43.03%
I dont know if Speaker Phelan will be persuaded or arm-twisted into changing his mind about making whatever minor infractions into felonies, but I hope he holds out. Make of that what you will. HD145 30.71% 69.29%
Before coming to the Chronicle, Jen spent three years covering City Hall for Houston's NPR station. JP2 23,249 29,149 10
Education: Prairie View A&M University and South Texas College of Law, Campaign website: beverlyarmstrongforjudge.com. JP4 174,785 120,166
The maximum that a judge can receive from a PAC is $5000, so that is the goal for each judge and for Lina. JP2 41.97% 52.90% 3.88% 1.25%
CC1 26.37% 71.13% 2.50%
The chamber also approved new punishments for members who break quorum, like most House Democrats did two years ago in protest of GOP-backed voting restrictions. Of the bright red counties, six of them are small, and while they have steadily become redder over the years, the net effect is fairly small. While at least two other of those votes received blowback from local officials, Harker Heights is so far the first to reject voters approval outright. CC2 49.71% 50.29%
JP3 35,847 40,620 1,612 8
This one was particularly unserious, and the resolution shows how weak it was. If I were the New York Times, Id spend the next six months visiting brunch counters in those districts to talk to more-in-sadness-than-in-anger Mealer voters, who will turn out to have been almost uniformly Ed Emmett voters in 2018 but who will insist that they really wanted to support Hidalgo, they largely agreed with her on how she handled the pandemic and all, but for reasons they cant quite articulate they just couldnt. Experience: Joseph Sanchez began his career as a prosecutor at the Montgomery County District Attorneys office where he assisted in establishing the offices DWI Pre-Trial Intervention Program in November 2012. City Council will call for the election, which will include council district seats and other local elections, during its Feb. 16 meeting. HD142 26.15% 71.40% 2.44% 0.01%
I dont have any great insight here, nor do I have much confidence that Dems could take action to mitigate against this. HD133 36,909 23,379 11
May God have mercy on our souls. I filter out precincts with ten or fewer votes cast in the Houston proposition elections, which is arbitrary and still yields more total votes than in the prop races themselves, but its close enough for these purposes.
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