Loyalty to Trump, Abbott and Paxton prevailed over sanity in Texas GOP primary (Editorial)

Here’s a fun quiz for the hundreds of thousands of Republican voters who ousted three incumbent judges on Texas' highest criminal court in Tuesday’s primary: describe what this court does in one sentence. 

We bet most couldn’t tell you that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is the court of last resort for all criminal cases, a powerful body that often deals, literally, with matters of life or death, including reviewing every case that results in a death penalty. 

But we bet plenty of these voters could tell you exactly what the ousted Republicans on the court failed to do: show absolute loyalty to Attorney General Ken Paxton.