Breaking: Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Fort Worth lawyer and former Secretary of State John Scott as interim Texas attorney general. Scott will temporarily run the agency because Ken Paxton has been suspended from office until his impeachment trial.
, who was suspended as attorney general pending the outcome of an impeachment trial in the state Senate.
“John Scott has the background and experience needed to step in as a short-term interim Attorney General during the time the Attorney General has been suspended from duty,” Abbott said in a statement. “He served under me in the Texas Attorney General’s Office and knows how the Office of the Attorney General operates.”December 2022
Many feared Scott would be amenable to Trump’s argument that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud because Scott briefly represented the former president in a lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania. As secretary of state, Scott also served in a diplomatic capacity, managing the state’s relationship with Mexico, Texas’ largest trading partner. With cracking down on illegal immigration a top priority for Abbott, Scott helped negotiate pacts with the governors of Neuvo Leon, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Tamaulipas to improve border security efforts.
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