San Antonio, TX (San Antonio Report)

As courthouses in Texas' urban centers trended blue over the course of several election cycles, state GOP leaders embarked on an expensive effort to reclaim power through reconsidering the qualifications for judges, high-dollar judicial races and new courts that will take certain cases off locally elected judges' plates.

Over the past six months, the results are slowly starting to come into focus.

Just blocks away from the Bexar County Courthouse -- where Democrats flipped the last remaining Republican-held district court judgeships in 2022 -- some cases that previously would have been handled by those elected judges are now being diverted to a new business court with judges appointed by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott.

The state's GOP-led legislature put a di

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