Gov. Greg Abbott has used his tenure to cultivate right-wing activism aimed at driving the nation’s courts and laws to the right.
Greg Coleman, Texas’ first solicitor general, in 2010.But at its inception, the Texas Office of the Solicitor General wasn’t seen as an ideological post. Coleman, who, hired young, smart attorneys from across the political spectrum, former employees say.
Much of the attorney general’s work was — and still is — apolitical, the usual bureaucratic back and forth that keeps a state moving. Back then, even the high-profile cases weren’t particularly partisan. Texas teamed up with the Clinton Department of Justice on a 6th AmendmentBut as the increasingly Republican Texas Legislature began dipping its toes into more hard-line conservatism, the office began to absorb some of the runoff.
One of the ancillary characters in that legal drama was Ted Cruz, a young Texas lawyer sent to Florida to defend George W. Bush’s disputed win in the state that edged him into the Oval Office. Cruz expected to be rewarded with a prominent post in the Bush administration, but the “twenty-eight-year-old, cocky kid” had “stepped on more than a few toes,” Cruz later wrote, and he was shunted into a minor agency role.
Abbott assembled a team of young conservative lawyers charged with “scouring the national legal landscape and positioning Texas at the vanguard of conservative legal dynamism,” Don Willett, who served as deputy assistant attorney general before becoming a Texas Supreme Court justice,Greg Abbott debates former Austin Mayor Kirk Watson during his first successful run for attorney general in 2002.
“We wanted Ted to take a leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction,” Abbott said. “Ted was supercharged and ready to go.” The key to this transformation was Cruz, who revolutionized the Texas Office of the Solicitor General. During Coleman’s “We moved into hyperdrive in terms of the focus and the aggressiveness,” McBee said. “[Cruz] knew a great deal about what cases would be attractive and how to frame those cases as they came to the court.”
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