Supreme Court of Texas

Section 162.015 of the Texas Election Code cannot reasonably be construed to permit a judge to be a Democratic Party general election candidate when he voted in the Republican Party primary, and that statute is not unconstitutional as applied to him.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/24/2002
• Decided 08/21/2002
• Published 08/22/2002

Judges

• Justice RODRIGUEZ delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• R. John Cullar, R. Coke Mills, Mills Cullar & McLeod, LLP, Waco, Joseph David Hughes, Assistant Solicitor General, Julie Caruthers, Office of the Solicitor General, John Cornyn, Attorney General, Howard G. Baldwin, First Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey S. Boyd, Michael Winget-Hernandez, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Roy L. Barrett, Naman Howell Smith & Lee, Waco, Keith C. Cameron, Naman Howell Smith & Lee, Austin, for Appellee.