As the Montana Legislature meets again, a handful of Republicans are promoting bills to change the way that Montanans elect our judges. These Republicans want to change judicial elections from ...

In 2019, then Republican Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Nathan Hecht called partisan judicial elections “among the very worst methods of judicial selection.” One may not agree with ...

Blacklock replaces Nathan Hecht, the court's longest-serving justice, who had reached the state's mandatory judicial retirement age. In the audio above, Houston Matters producer Mincho Jacob talks ...

"Chief Justice Nathan Hecht's recent retirement, following his record-breaking tenure as the longest-serving chief justice in the Supreme Court of Texas, marks the end of a remarkable era," said ...