Leach garnered 47,983 votes, or 60.86%, while Washington received 30,863 votes, according to unofficial early voting totals.

The AG also said he’d make a criminal referral against the lawmaker, who apologized for texting a Court of Criminal Appeals ...

In the texts, Leach reportedly asked the judge to reconsider Roberson's case, whose execution has now been postponed.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is calling for the resignation of State Representative Jeff Leach after his admission to ...

Leach, who serves as chair of the House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence, asked a Court of Criminal Appeals ...

Leach, one of the driving forces behind the effort to stop Roberson’s execution, later apologized to the unnamed judge, who ...

Text messages appear to show the Republican state rep. from Plano asking one of the judges who rejected the death row ...

"One Judge. That's all that's needed to simply say... Robert Roberson deserves a new trial," Leach wrote to a judge on the death row inmate's appeal.

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State Rep. Jeff Leach admitted to texting a judge in the Robert Roberson execution case, asking to reconsider the case.

The race for District 67 features incumbent Republican Rep. Jeff Leach facing off against Democrat Makala L. Washington.