AUSTIN — Today, Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC endorsed Eva Guzman, who resigned from the Texas Supreme Court earlier this month, in her campaign for Texas Attorney General.
The state’s current AG, Ken Paxton, has attracted controversy ever since assuming the office back in 2015.
TLR PAC, a large funder of Texas Republicans, believes Guzman is a committed conservative, as well as an accomplished lawyer and judge, whose intellect and strength of character have served Texas well in her two decades of public service.
“Texans can count on her to run a first-class Attorney General’s Office and to fight encroachment by the federal government on our individual liberties and Texas’ rights under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,” said TLRPAC Chairman Richard J. Trabulsi Jr.
“Justice Guzman has the breadth of legal experience and the personal and professional integrity that we must require of our state’s highest legal officer. TLRPAC is proud to support her candidacy for Texas Attorney General.”
Paxton, in addition to being accused of bribery and abuse of office by his own staff, has also taken some heat over his handling of an antitrust lawsuit against Google.
Instead of relying on the hundreds of lawyers in his own office, Paxton hired two outside law firms and requested $43 million in taxpayer funds to pursue the litigation against Google.
Houston attorney Mark McCaig was the first to post the details of the contingency fee contracts the outside law firms signed with state, calling into question the legitimacy of the agreements.
McCaig, chairman of the Texas Republican Initiative, says Guzman has consistently been one of the most popular Republican elected officials in Texas, earning a record-breaking number of votes during her last campaign.
“During her more than two decades of service on the bench, Justice Guzman developed a stellar reputation as a hard-working, fair, and conservative jurist,” McCaig said. “Justice Guzman's experience, coupled with her compelling personal story, makes her a very formidable candidate for Texas Attorney General."
Guzman was a successful attorney in Houston before starting her career as a jurist in 1999 as a district court judge in Harris County. After her time on the trial bench, Guzman continued her judicial service as a justice on the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals.
She joined the Texas Supreme Court in 2009. She is the first Hispanic woman to be elected to statewide office in Texas and the first Hispanic woman to serve as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court.