Texas voters will consider a proposed constitutional amendment that would broaden the circumstances in which judges can deny bail to criminal ...

Texas Proposition 3 would require judges or magistrates to deny bail for suspects accused of certain felony charges.

In Texas, 75% of proposed constitutional amendments have been passed by voters since 1876, while five previous amendments related to bail denial each passed with at least 79% of the vote.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a federal court to vacate the ODonnell Consent Decree, a first-of-its-kind bail reform practice in Harris County that allows most misdemeanor ...