New Law Governing Judicial Candidate Disclosures Spawns Legal Challenges

Two sitting judges have asked the Texas Supreme Court to weigh in on the consequences of failing to comply with a new law requiring certain public disclosures about a candidate’s legal experience.

Justice Peter Kelly of the First Court of Appeals in Houston is arguing his challenger must be removed from the March primary ballot for her alleged failure to disclose certain information, and Harris County District Judge Brittanye Morris is arguing she was wrongly kicked off the ballot after she mistakenly put her driver’s license number in a field of the form where her bar number should have gone.