The Attorney General is the State of Texas Lawyer. The Texas AG represents the state in litigation and is the state’s legal counsel.

Rochelle Garza is the Democrat candidate for Texas attorney General. Garza is a civil rights lawyer for immigration, abortion, due process, and child support. She is part of Jane’s Due Process, a legal non-profit for pregnant teens, on the board of the State Bar of Texas’ Laws Relating to Immigration and Nationality Committee, and a former staff Lawyer for the ACLU.

Garza is a pro-choice candidate, who pushes to end restrictive abortion policies in the state of Texas. Garza says she will use the office to work with district attorneys across Texas to protect Texans from the current abortion Texas laws and protect doctors’ decisions in the matter.

Garza also pushes to expand Medicaid and affordable prescription drugs. Furthermore, Garza campaigns on voting rights and seeks to remove what she calls GOP voter suppression and she criticizes the current Texas administration. 

Additionally, Garza wants to fight for the rights of workers and workers’ unions. She states she would create a liaison between the AG office and workers’ unions. “I will fight to end wage theft, misclassification of workers to prevent them from receiving benefits, and health and safety violations that put workers in danger.”

Garza also speaks on the power grid failure during Winter Storm Uri, and highlights that the Attorney General should have gone after corporations who were responsible and “put their losses on the consumers.” As Attorney General, Garza makes a stance that she will hold corporations accountable, and seek to provide better consumer protections. 

Garza is a believer that cannabis should be legalized and that the state needs to end criminal prosecutions for marijuana possession that put many people in prison for non-violent offenses. 

Garza seeks to find a middle ground between protecting the border and the civil rights of asylum seekers. “We should fight drug, gun, and human trafficking aggressively at the border and treat asylum seekers with dignity and respect.”

Ken Paxton has served as the Texas Attorney General since 2015. He is the Republican candidate on the ticket for Attorney General. Paxton is a constitutional preserving candidate, and much of his time as Texas Attorney General has been litigating federal constitutional cases on behalf of Texas. Paxton has led the litigation for stances on pro-life, election integrity, border security, and privacy. 

According to his website, Paxton has led initiatives against human trafficking in the state and continues to do so. He is also noted on his website for the Child Support Division, under his leadership, collected 4.8 million for Texas families during 2020, saving taxpayers over a billion.

Paxton is notable for his work as Texas AG on the national stage. He aided in declaring Obamacare unconstitutional in 2018. Paxton has also worked to keep federal regulations out of the state of Texas, and has been part of and led many federal lawsuits.

Paxton is also pushing for border security, being one of several Attorney Generals to file lawsuits against the Biden Administration for lifting Title 42, federal mandates that allowed the border patrol to quickly expel migrants. Paxton is also a pro-life candidate and has sued the Biden Administration for implementing emergency abortion mandates at federally funded hospitals in the State of Texas after the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Paxton is also known as a proponent of election integrity and has implemented criminal investigations into the elections system in Texas. 

Paxton has also taken lawsuits against big tech companies, prohibiting Twitter and Facebook from removing accounts based on viewpoints. Paxton has also filed a lawsuit against Google again last month, claiming the company violates the private lives of non-consenting people. 

Paxton has been criticized for being under indictment for the past seven years on securities fraud charges. Additionally, he is under FBI investigation after several members of the Attorney General’s office stated he used his office illegally to help a political donor.