BREAKING: Scott, a former deputy attorney general, will run the agency because Ken Paxton has been suspended from office until his impeachment trial before the Texas Senate.
, 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.
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