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The Texas Tribune reports:
Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday appointed Fort Worth lawyer and former Secretary of State John Scott as interim Texas attorney general, temporarily replacing Ken Paxton, who was suspended as attorney general pending the outcome of an impeachment trial in the state Senate. Scott previously served as deputy attorney general for civil litigation when Abbott led that office. He has more than 34 years of legal experience and has argued more than 100 cases in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
Previous to his appointment by Abbott, he briefly represented Donald Trump in one of the former president’s dozens of failed challenges to the 2020 election. And Scott later spearheaded audits of elections in four Texas counties that found no serious issues but helped fuel Republican distrust and, ultimately, bills this legislative session that would give the state unprecedented power over elections in Democratic-run Harris County.
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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. https://t.co/HK2cQApR7I
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 31, 2023
Texans deserve better than John Scott. Texans deserve a new era of INTEGRITY in our state government.
We also know he’s backed baseless and false claims fromDonald Trump in the former president’s desperate attempts to overturn the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/MKa8mQgyWk
— Common Cause Texas (@CCauseTexas) May 31, 2023
Two years ago Greg Abbott appointed John Scott to be the Texas Secretary of State (the chief election officer of Texas) — pretty grim since Scott was a part of the legal team trying to contest the results of the Pennsylvania election that Joe Biden won in 2020 https://t.co/KvjVdnZylB
— Jessica Montoya Coggins (@JessicaMCoggins) May 31, 2023