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Clint Morgan
Clint Morgan (Republican Party) is a judge for Place 7 of the Texas First District Court of Appeals. He assumed office on January 1, 2025. His current term ends on December 31, 2030.
Morgan (Republican Party) ran for election for the Place 7 judge of the Texas First District Court of Appeals. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Clint Morgan was born in Missouri and lives in Sugar Land, Texas. His career experience includes working as an assistant district attorney with Harris County.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas intermediate appellate court elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas First District Court of Appeals Place 7
Clint Morgan defeated incumbent Julie Countiss in the general election for Texas First District Court of Appeals Place 7 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Clint Morgan (R) | 52.5 | 1,173,652 |
 | Julie Countiss (D)  | 47.5 | 1,061,387 | |
| Total votes: 2,235,039 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas First District Court of Appeals Place 7
Incumbent Julie Countiss advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas First District Court of Appeals Place 7 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Julie Countiss | 100.0 | 191,789 |
| Total votes: 191,789 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas First District Court of Appeals Place 7
Clint Morgan advanced from the Republican primary for Texas First District Court of Appeals Place 7 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Clint Morgan | 100.0 | 268,991 |
| Total votes: 268,991 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Morgan received the following endorsements.
2022
See also: Texas Supreme Court elections, 2022
General election
General election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 5
Incumbent Scott Walker defeated Dana Huffman in the general election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 5 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Scott Walker (R) | 56.9 | 4,513,500 |
 | Dana Huffman (D) | 43.1 | 3,413,071 | |
| Total votes: 7,926,571 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 5
Dana Huffman advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 5 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dana Huffman | 100.0 | 911,472 |
| Total votes: 911,472 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 5
Incumbent Scott Walker defeated Clint Morgan in the Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 5 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Scott Walker | 56.6 | 884,160 |
| Clint Morgan | 43.4 | 677,504 | |
| Total votes: 1,561,664 | |||
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Campaign finance
2020
See also: Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2020
Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)
Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 22
Troy Nehls defeated Sri Preston Kulkarni and Joseph LeBlanc in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 22 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Troy Nehls (R) | 51.5 | 210,259 |
 | Sri Preston Kulkarni (D) | 44.6 | 181,998 | |
 | Joseph LeBlanc (L) | 3.9 | 15,791 | |
| Total votes: 408,048 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 22
Troy Nehls defeated Kathaleen Wall in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 22 on July 14, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Troy Nehls | 69.9 | 36,132 |
 | Kathaleen Wall | 30.1 | 15,547 | |
| Total votes: 51,679 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 22
Sri Preston Kulkarni defeated Derrick Reed, Nyanza Moore, and Carmine Petricco III in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sri Preston Kulkarni | 53.1 | 34,664 |
 | Derrick Reed | 24.7 | 16,126 | |
 | Nyanza Moore | 14.5 | 9,449 | |
| Carmine Petricco III | 7.8 | 5,074 | ||
| Total votes: 65,313 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Chris Fernandez (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 22
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Troy Nehls | 40.5 | 29,583 |
| ✔ | | Kathaleen Wall | 19.4 | 14,201 |
 | Pierce Bush | 15.4 | 11,281 | |
 | Greg Hill | 14.1 | 10,315 | |
 | Dan Mathews | 3.0 | 2,165 | |
| Bangar Reddy | 1.6 | 1,144 | ||
 | Joe Walz | 1.4 | 1,039 | |
| Shandon Phan | 1.1 | 773 | ||
 | Diana Miller | 1.1 | 771 | |
 | Jon Camarillo | 1.0 | 718 | |
 | Douglas Haggard | 0.5 | 398 | |
 | Howard Lynn Steele Jr. | 0.4 | 283 | |
 | Matt Hinton | 0.4 | 274 | |
| Brandon Penko | 0.1 | 96 | ||
 | Aaron Hermes | 0.1 | 92 | |
| Total votes: 73,133 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Schell Hammel (R)
- Keli Chevalier (R)
- Clint Morgan (R)
- Felicia Harris Hoss (R)
Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 22
Joseph LeBlanc advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 21, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Joseph LeBlanc (L) |
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Clint Morgan did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Clint Morgan did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Morgan's campaign website stated the following:
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CLINT THE ORIGINALIST. Clint is committed to originalism and will be a judge in the mold of Thomas and Alito. A CANDIDATE WHO RESPECTS ORIGINAL MEANING. When interpreting a constitution or a law, a judge must respect its original meaning. A judge who “interprets” a law to mean something else is legislating from the bench. Clint will be a judge in the mold of Thomas and Alito. He follows what’s called “original meaning originalism,” meaning he interprets the law by giving the words the meaning they had at the time they were adopted. As Justice Alito has explained: “Originalism is the idea that the Constitution has a fixed meaning; it doesn’t change. It means what people would have understood it to mean at the time it was written.” Every Republican judicial candidate will claim to be an originalist. But being an originalist is hard work. It takes an in-depth knowledge of legal history. It takes a tremendous amount of research into original sources. And it takes a willingness to come to conclusions you may not personally agree with. Clint has done and will continue to do the hard work of originalism. A TRACK RECORD OF ORIGINALISM. When his cases involved questions about the Texas constitution, Clint dug deep to determine what the Texans who adopted the constitution believed it meant. For instance, in Allen v. State, Clint asked the Court of Criminal Appeals to overturn a large body of case law because it conflicted with the original meaning of the Texas constitution. For most of a decade the Court of Criminal Appeals was striking down court-cost statutes as unconstitutional, on the basis that courts collecting money violated the separation of powers provision. In his brief – available here – Clint looked at laws passed by the very same Texans who adopted the constitution in 1876 and showed that they believed assessing court costs against convicted criminals did not violate the separation of powers. Four judges on the Court of Criminal Appeals have since adopted this view, and none have disagreed. In In the Matter of A.F., Clint addressed a juvenile defendant’s argument that the Texas constitution’s “due course of law” provision – which is similar to the federal “due process” provision – required special procedures before a juvenile could waive his right to a jury trial. In his brief to the Supreme Court of Texas – available here – Clint looked at the treatment of juvenile defendants in 19th Century Texas to show that those Texans who adopted the constitution believed it gave juvenile and adult defendants an identical right to a jury trial. In Lemus v. State, Clint confronted the novel argument that the Texas constitution required a jury for every criminal trial, including guilty pleas or cases where the defendant wanted to have a bench trial. Article I, Section 10 of the Texas constitution says that, “In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have a speedy public trial by an impartial jury.” On its face, that sounds like a requirement. But in his brief to the Fourteenth Court of Appeals – available here – Clint used historical research going back to English common law to show that the Texans who adopted the constitution believed this constitutional provision allowed defendants to waive their right to a jury. These cases demonstrate Clint’s ability to do the hard work of originalism. As judge, Clint will bring the knowledge, work ethic, and studious mindset Texans deserve to their highest criminal court.[2] |
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| —Clint Morgan's campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
2020
Clint Morgan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Morgan's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Put families first.
- Secure the border.
- Grow the economy.
Tax policy to benefit family businesses and help parents who choose to stay home with their children.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Texas First District Court of Appeals Place 7 |
Officeholder Texas First District Court of Appeals Place 7 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Clint Morgan for Judge, "Meet the Morgans," accessed February 11, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Clint for CCA Judge, “Judicial Philosophy,” accessed January 24, 2022
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Julie Countiss (D) |
Texas First District Court of Appeals Place 7 2025-Present |
Succeeded by - |
Federal courts:
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Northern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Northern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas
State courts:
Texas Supreme Court • Texas Court of Appeals • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals • Texas District Courts • Texas County Courts • Texas County Courts at Law • Texas Statutory Probate Courts • Texas Justice of the Peace Courts
State resources:
Courts in Texas • Texas judicial elections • Judicial selection in Texas
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