When former Gov. George W. Bush occupied his mansion in Austin, few Democrats had the temerity to seek a statewide judicial office. Indeed, by the January 2000 deadline, no Democrats had even filed to run in the March primary that year for the Texas Supreme Court or the Court of Criminal Appeals slots.
“I felt strongly that there should have been a challenge to the Republicans in that election. But there was no funding, so I sat back,” recalls Justice Linda Reyna Yanez, who sits on the 13th Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi.
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