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Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock asked for higher judicial pay and protections for parents in child custody cases in his first State of the Judiciary address since Gov. Greg Abbott appointed him to the high court's top role.

The Texas Indigent Defense Commission is asking the Legislature to allocate millions of the state's general revenue to rural public defense attorneys and offices.

Dallas County prosecutor Jennifer Balido will have to run for election once her term expires in 2026. She's now the only Republican state district judge in Dallas County.

Abbott originally appointed Blacklock to the high court as the Place 2 justice in 2018. Abbott's general counsel James Sullivan will replace Blacklock as a new justice.

Tina Clinton says additional mail-in and provisional ballots led to her victory over Republican Matthew Kolodoski in a tight race for a Fifth Court of Appeals seat.

Effective Nov. 15, all federal lawsuits against X must be filed in the Northern District of Texas, where a judge owns Tesla stock and has heard several lawsuits involving Elon Musk.

Election night marked a major ideological shift in 14 Texas appeals courts whose elections usually get little fanfare.

The Fifth Court of Appeals gets civil and criminal appeals from Collin, Dallas, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. Here are the new judges on the bench.

With the help of some North Texas billionaires, the Judicial Fairness PAC is targeting voters by pinning the blame for Dallas' crime rates on the city's Democratic judges.

A 13-year fight between a judge and Texas over how the state runs its foster care system is back in court on Monday. Texas wants the judge off the case and her stiff fines canceled. The case is also part of a nationwide push back on judges who force states to take specific actions — decisions that, conservatives say, are 'corrosive to federalism.'

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, has accused a federal district court that spans North Texas and the Panhandle of assigning cases in a way that allows cases filed in certain areas to consistently land in front of judges who may be sympathetic to a plaintiff or defendant's goals.

Attorneys David Schenck, Gina Parker and Lee Finley appeared set to replace three incumbents as judges on Texas' highest criminal court Wednesday morning.