In Re Gamble

delivered the Court’s opinion

joined by Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, and Justice RODRIGUEZ, and joined by Chief Justice PHILLIPS except for Part II B.

Brent Gamble, presiding judge of the 270th District Court in Harris County and candidate for reelection, asks this Court to order the Fourteenth Court of Appeals to vacate its conditional writ of mandamus that compels election officials to omit his name from the Republican primary ballot.1 Although we disagree with the court of appeals’ construction of the Election Code, we do agree Judge Gamble failed in the trial court to establish his…