Hundreds of Democrats who packed the ballroom at a Houston hotel on election night cheered and whooped it up when celebrating Barack Obama’s election as president, but Democratic lawyers and others who pay attention to the courthouses were likely just as euphoric about Democratic victories in Harris County trial court races.
Buoyed by early voting that gave most Democratic trial court candidates in Harris County a 50,000-vote lead for Election Day, Democrats won big on Nov. 4 and captured 23 of 27 trial benches up for grabs, based on complete but unofficial returns.
