There were two contested primary elections for the Texas Supreme Court. The results are:

Place 3

In a remarkably close six-way election, Rick Green and Debra Lehrmann appear set for an April 13th runoff for the Republican nomination to Place 3 on the Texas Supreme Court.

With 99.98% (all but two) of Texas’s precincts reporting:1

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I’ve been hitting “reload” on the Secretary of State’s website this evening, and I’ve tweeted a few updates as the Place 3 race has changed. A runoff is a certainty. Which candidates will appear on that ballot remains too close to call. Rick Green and Debra Lehrmann are in the lead as [...]

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There are two Texas Supreme Court seats with contested races in the March 2, 2010 Texas primary. Links to newspaper endorsements and candidate profiles are on my “2010 Elections” page.

Three candidates (all for Place 3) responded to the Q&A sent out by the blog — Rebecca Simmons, Rick Strange, and Debra Lehrmann.

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I’m pleased to present you with our third candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Judge Debra Lehrmann currently serves as District Judge of the 360th Judicial District in Fort Worth. She is one of six Republicans vying for the nomination for Place 3, the seat being vacated by the retirement of Justice Harriet O’Neill.

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Earlier this week, the State Bar of Texas released the results of its member poll about judicial candidates.

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I’m pleased to present you with our second candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Justice Rick Strange currently serves on the Eleventh Court of Appeals based out of Eastland. He is one of six Republicans vying for the nomination for Place 3, the seat being vacated by the retirement of Justice Harriet O’Neill.

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I’m pleased to present you with our first candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Justice Rebecca Simmons currently serves on the Fourth Court of Appeals based out of San Antonio. She is one of six Republicans vying for the nomination for Place 3, the seat being vacated by the retirement of Justice Harriet O’Neill.

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The Texas Tribune has an article today about the challenge in the Republican primary to incumbent Justice Felipe Reyna of the Waco Court of Appeals. Justice Reyna was appointed by Governor Perry in 2003 and reelected in 2004.

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I’ve found five Texas Supreme Court candidates (so far) who have active Twitter accounts.

I’ve combined their feeds together into this Twitter list, which you can follow to get a sense of the unglamorous life of a statewide candidate. (I will keep that list updated as other candidates start using the service.)

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This will be the second election cycle for SCOTXblog.

To help readers follow and make sense of the Texas Supreme Court campaigns, I’ve added a page about the 2010 Texas Supreme Court Elections through a link on the menu bar.

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Yesterday was the filing deadline for the 2010 primary elections. After much speculation, we now have a final list of who is running for each seat on the Texas Supreme Court.1

The most crowded race is for the open seat being left by Justice O’Neill. The other contested primary is in Place 9, where [...]

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Chief Justice Gray applies for the currently vacant seat on the Texas Supreme Court

The Waco Tribune reports that Chief Justice Gray of the Tenth Court of Appeals has applied for the open seat on the Texas Supreme Court, just vacated by Justice Brister.

That appointment is in high demand. According to the paper:

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