Harris County Republican judges have best electoral showing in a decade
Harris County’s rightward swing on Tuesday gave Republicans 10 judicial benches, the party’s best showing at the courthouse in a decade. Of the 27 state district court races on the ballot, Democrats won 18 of them – but a dozen of those were uncontested. Republicans won 10 of the 16 countywide judicial races they contested: five civil district courts, four criminal district courts (which ...