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A campaign flyer on display in Richmond, Texas for Brittanye Lashay Morris, one of the Democratic runoff candidates for Fort Bend County Precinct 4 commissioner. <\/p>\n
The Texas Supreme Court has effectively blocked a lower court\u2019s order to remove Brittanye Lashay Morris, a Democratic candidate for Fort Bend County Precinct 4 commissioner, from the May 26 runoff ballot.<\/p>\n
The state\u2019s high court issued an emergency stay order<\/a> on Thursday, granting Morris\u2019 request for temporary relief while the court considers whether to overturn a ruling earlier this month by Judge Susan Brown of the 458th District Court in Fort Bend County. Brown ruled that Morris should be removed from the ballot and replaced by Nicole Roberts, who placed third in a seven-candidate Democratic primary election on March 3. Roberts filed a lawsuit after the election, claiming Morris didn\u2019t qualify to be a candidate because of residency outside the county. <\/p>\n Morris received the most votes in the March 3 election<\/a>, with April Jones placing second to also qualify for a runoff. None of the candidates received more than 19% of the vote, and more than 50% is needed for an outright victory.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n “The rule of law isn’t just a principle, it’s protection,” Morris wrote on her campaign Facebook page<\/a> on Thursday, in response to the Texas Supreme Court\u2019s order. “And today, it prevailed.”<\/p>\n Roberts did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the order. In a post to her campaign Facebook page<\/a> on Friday, she wrote that the court\u2019s order would \u201cprevent my name from appearing on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s unfortunate we couldn’t stop the disenfranchisement of the people this time, but the fight will always continue,\u201d she also wrote in her post.<\/p>\n Jones did not comment on the order by the Texas Supreme Court. She previously told Houston Public Media, “With everything that\u2019s going on, I’m staying very focused on my race.” <\/p>\n