Few issues in recent election cycles have energized Republican voters more than the fight against election fraud.
And no one in Texas government has wielded that issue more effectively in political fashion than Attorney General Ken Paxton — using it to take down rivals, reshape the state’s highest criminal court, and now make a last-minute push for the Legislature to renew his office’s authority to prosecute election-related crimes, despite a similar law being struck down in 2021 on constitutional grounds.
