In a Tuesday letter, Hancock criticized the attorney general for not using all the tools at his disposal to go after groups he says are affiliated with Muslim terrorist groups.
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Get our free newsletters in your inbox three times a week.From left: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and state Comptroller Kelly Hancock during Paxton’s September 2023 impeachment trial on the Senate floor at the Austin Capitol.responding to a letter Hancock sent accusing Paxton of falling short in his efforts to stop the spread of Muslim-affiliated groups in Texas. Paxton called Hancock an “incompetent loser” and “embarrassment” to the position of the state’s chief financial officer in a social media post late Tuesday. He called for Gov. Greg Abbott to remove Hancock from office and replace him with the GOP nominee for comptroller, Don Huffines. Abbott did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Hancock, a former state senator, was appointed by Abbott in June, after Glenn Hegar left to become chancellor of the Texas A&M system. Paxton’s beef with Hancock goes back years — Hancock was one of two Republican state senators to vote to impeach Paxton on some of the charges levied by the House in 2023. “He failed to take me down during impeachment, and his career is over,” Paxton posted on social media Wednesday night. “It’s time for him to be fired.”Hancock, who oversees the voucher program, has pushed to exclude schools with ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, which Abbott has declared a terrorist organization.Paxton released a non-binding legal opinion in January saying Hancock has the authority to block certain schools from participating in the program if they are “illegally tied to terrorists or foreign adversaries.” Four Muslim parents and three Islamic private school providers sued over the exclusion, noting that hundreds of non-Islamic schools had been accepted without issue. A federal judge sided with them in an initial ruling, ordering the state to extend the voucher application deadline and consider the schools’ request to join the program. Hancock said in the letter that Paxton’s office had not made clear to the judge that there were connections between one of the schools, Houston Quran Academy, and the Muslim Brotherhood.Since 1986, the SA Current has served as the free, independent voice of San Antonio, and we want to keep it that way. Becoming an SA Current Supporter for as little as $5 a month allows us to continue offering readers access to our coverage of local news, food, nightlife, events, and culture with no paywalls.In the letter, Hancock also broadly criticized Paxton for not using all the tools at his disposal to go after groups he says are affiliated with Muslim terrorist groups. He called for Paxton to sue Houston Quran Academy to revoke their corporate charter, and said Paxton’s office had not yet taken steps to implement a new state law preventing “foreign adversaries” from buying land in Texas.This is the second time in a week that a fellow Republican has questioned Paxton’s legal strategy in high-profile litigation. In a recent legal filing,to the Texas Supreme Court that Paxton had rushed a lawsuit against a Harris County program offering legal aid for undocumented immigrants. “This emergency — whether artificial or sincere — predictably compressed review before the Fifteenth Court,” Abbott’s lawyers wrote. “Any shortcomings in the lower court’s decision here can easily be attributed to the challenges posed by expedited review.”Talarico and Cornyn neck-and-neck in hypothetical matchup, new poll findsThough Trump wants the candidate he doesn’t endorse to immediately drop from the race, Texas AG Ken Paxton says, ‘I’m staying in.’
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