The leaders of the Texas House and Senate have appointed lawmakers to a new committee to study an age-old issue: Should Texas reform its method of choosing judges in partisan elections?

Lawmakers have tried and failed many times to pass judicial selection reforms, but, in an exclusive interview, Rep. Tryon Lewis, cochairman of the Joint Interim Committee on Judicial Selection, told Texas Lawyer that things might turn out differently this time.

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