Texas Supreme Court Justice Fights Primary Disqualification Bid

A bid to disqualify a Texas Supreme Court justice from the March election, if successful, would be “incredibly destabilizing,” a lawyer for the justice argued on Monday.

Justice John Devine is facing a challenge from an intermediary appeals court justice, Brian Walker, who says that Devine’s petition didn’t garner the minimum number of ballot application signatures from voters.

If Devine is disqualified, Walker’s move would likely hand him an uncontested win in the primary for the Supreme Court seat.

Walker first raised the signature issue with the state’s Republican Party in late December, six weeks after Walker filed for the ...