Texas is not unique in its system for choosing judges; over 40 states elect their judges in partisan elections.
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Q. 2The 1998 elections gave Republicans all nine seats on the Texas Supreme Court.
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Q. 3Prior to the 1970s justices on the Texas Supreme Court were exclusively moderate Republicans.
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Q. 4Hispanics, African Americans, and women have historically been underrepresented as judges in Texas compared to their proportions of the state's population.
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Q. 5One of the reasons for the lack of minorities serving as judges on Texas courts is that so many judicial elections are conducted on a countywide and statewide basis.
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Q. 6the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals have nine members.
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Q. 7What is the purpose of writs of mandamus on which the Texas Supreme Court sometimes acts?
a. It is to remedy defects in justice by ordering lower courts or public officials to take a certain action.
b. It offers an explanation as to why the Court has decided not to hear a case appealed to it.
c. They are used to stop a case from being heard in a lower court and to transfer it to a higher court.
d. They are decrees ordering the legislature to strike down unconstitutional laws.
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