Mari Bennett, a well-known criminal defense attorney in Houston, Texas, recently said in his blog, “Defending People”, that he has decided to seek the Libertarian Party nomination for Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, a statewide partisan judicial post. The American Bar Association Journal took note of the news. See here. The ABA Journal has a link to Bennett’s announcement.

Also, in Montana, Gerald J. McConnell has filed in the Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate. He is a retired businessman with an impressive resume, and a Commissioner for Missoula Airport. Here is his resume. He will appear on the ballot as “Jerry McConnell.” Here is a newspaper story about his candidacy announcement. Thanks to Mike Fellows for this news.

Two candidates, each named Roy Brooks, have filed in the Tarrant County, Texas, Democratic primary to run against each other for the same County Commission seat. See this story. Thanks to TexasRedistrictingBlog for the link.

On March 7, an El Paso Church filed an expedited appeal with the Texas Supreme Court, in Tom Brown Ministries v Cook. The State Appeals Court had ruled that a recall petition is invalid, even though it had enough valid signatures, because a church did a great deal of the work organizing support for the recall and that church happens to be incorporated. Here is the 63-page brief filed by the church (the argument itself is only 18 pages, and then there are appendices attached).