← Back to Justice, Supreme Court, Place 8Candidate · November 3, 2026 General Election
Brett Busby
On the ballot for · 6-year term
This race is on every Texas ballot.
Background
- Now
- Justice, Supreme Court of Texas, Place 8
- Before
- Justice, Fourteenth Court of Appeals; Member, Texas Multi-District Litigation Panel; Adjunct Professor, University of Texas School of Law
- Work
- Appellate litigator (private practice, Houston); board certified in civil appellate law
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In their own words
Quoted from Brett Busby’s own official campaign material — what the campaign says the candidate will do. Some campaigns write about their candidate in the third person; the wording is theirs either way. These are the candidate’s claims: PlainDocket doesn’t check, rate or endorse them, and every candidate in a race is quoted the same way, from the same kind of source.
“When Governor Abbott asked me to serve on the Supreme Court in 2019, and when Texans overwhelmingly elected me in 2020, I took an oath to defend the Constitutions and laws of the United States and Texas. I work hard to honor that oath every day, applying our laws faithfully to all who come before the Court—never rewriting those laws from the bench. Every Texan deserves a fair hearing, and every decision must be grounded in the law, not politics, pressure, or personal preference.”
“That's the approach I've taken in every case I've heard in my 13 years on the bench. I'm running for re-election to continue building this legacy for my family and yours.”
“We have to think creatively about how the legal system can serve more Texans. Access to justice must be more than a principle; it must be a reality.”
Where the money comes from
$1,594,553$1,594,553 in total receipts, through Jun 30, 2026 — Search the Texas Ethics Commission for Brett Busby's filings raised, through Jun 30, 2026
The filing reports a total but doesn’t break it down by source, so there is nothing to chart here.
Official filing:
- This figure is the candidate's own campaign account. Any committee the Texas Ethics Commission records as supporting them is listed separately and is NOT added in — money moved between the two is reported by both, so a combined total would count it twice.
- These lines don't add up to total receipts — receipts also include transfers, loans and refunds, which aren't donations.
- Filing is periodic (semiannual, 30-day, or 8-day pre-election reports). The figure above sums every report filed for the current 2025-2026 election cycle, through the most recent period shown — it can be several months stale depending on where a candidate is in the filing cycle, and excludes activity from any earlier cycle.
- The Texas Ethics Commission and the Federal Election Commission define "total receipts" differently — Texas Ethics Commission figures should never be compared directly against a federal candidate's FEC figures.
Official records
We searched the registries below and found no record for Brett Busby.
Checked 28 July 2026: Texas Legislature (impeachment records) · Texas Ethics Commission (final orders) · State Bar of Texas (attorney discipline) · Texas State Securities Board (enforcement orders). The same registries are searched for every candidate in a race, and each entry describes only what the record itself states — including how it ended. We publish no allegations and no news coverage.
- The Texas Ethics Commission is required by law to keep dismissed complaints, and findings it treats as technical or minor, confidential — so no result there means no publicly-issued final order, not that no complaint was ever filed.
- A State Bar profile shows public disciplinary history the Bar publishes online; older judgments are held by its disciplinary counsel and aren't in that profile.
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