January 26, 2020
Commentary: The Fight to Keep Judicial Elections in Texas
By Michael Quinn Sullivan
The Texas Constitution guarantees Texans the right to select their judges at the ballot box. In recent years, it has become fashionable in crony-elitist circles to denigrate Texas’ method of judicial selection. After all, you can’t trust mere citizens with the courts, right?
During the 2019 legislative session, the House and Senate voted for—and the governor signed—legislation creating a commission to study Texas’ judicial selection process. Only 11 members of the House and six members of the Senate opposed the legislation.
Texas Scorecard Radio
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Episode 121: Texas Scorecard Radio host Tony McDonald discusses a couple of stories blowing up in the state of Texas with Brandon Waltens and Matt Stringer. David Balat, Director of the Right on Healthcare initiative with Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the show to talk about the Personalized Care Act in this week’s interview. Michael Quinn Sullivan has this week’s commentary.
