TX-AG: Meet the candidates vying to be Texas attorney general in the post-Paxton era [View all]

On the Democratic side, candidates are pitching a realignment of priorities for the state agency.

State Sen. Nathan Johnson of Dallas and former Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski both said they would aim for transparency, especially when settling disputes about what government records are public. They vowed to empower the office’s lawyers in charge of collecting child support payments and to set aside political battles, which they said Paxton focuses too much on.

Following the 2020 election, Paxton unsuccessfully tried to overturn the results in four battleground states to keep Donald Trump in power. During the Biden administration, Paxton challenged many of the White House’s immigration policies. He has targeted groups in Texas that help immigrants. And he defended the state in federal court as Texas undertook its own border clampdown — along the way creating a constitutional conflict because courts have long held that immigration law is the sole responsibility of the federal government to enforce.

Jaworski suggested he would enforce a part of the state’s election code that requires high schools to offer opportunities for seniors to register to vote. Most 18-year-olds in the state are not registered to vote and the state does not track compliance with the law.



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