Issue Position: Reform Proposal

Issue Position

Steve Smith advocates merging the Texas Supreme Court and the CCA. This would improve the state's jurisprudence (making it consistent between civil and criminal law), allow using the salary of the nine CCA judges to hire additional full-time professional criminal law staff, and give voters more control over the judiciary (because TSC races are more high profile than CCA races).

At a recent candidate forum in Houston, the moderator ask the candidates for CCA Place 5 whether the TSC and CCA should be merged. Steve Smith answered yes, Sid Harle said no, and Brent Webster was ambivalent. Scott Walker was not present.

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