The Texas Attorney General is the chief law officer of the State of Texas.
The department has offices in the William P. Clements Office Building in Downtown Austin.
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Histori
The Attorney General's Office was first established by the executive rule of the government of the Republic of Texas in 1836. The attorney general of the Republic of Texas and the first four public prosecutors under the constitutional state of 1845 were appointed by the governor. The office was elected in 1850 by constitutional amendments.
The Attorney General was elected for a four-year term. In 2013, former Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he would not seek re-election and would run for governor. In November 2014, he was elected Governor of Texas. Ken Paxton defeated the former Representative of the House of Representatives and the Republican Branch by 26% and elected easily in the general election as Texas Attorney-50, (there is a dispute over whether he is the 50th or 51st Prosecutor). Ken Paxton was sworn in on January 5, 2015, at the Senate Chamber in Texas Capitol. Governor Rick Perry, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, United States Senator Ted Cruz, and Lieutenant Governor-Elect Dan Patrick all participated in the inauguration ceremony.
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Duties and responsibilities
The Attorney General is charged by the state constitution to represent the state in civil litigation and approving the issue of public bonds. There are almost 2,000 references to the Attorney General's Office in state law.
The Office of the Prosecutor General serves as a legal advisor to all councils and state government agencies, issuing legal opinions when requested by the governor, head of state institutions and other officials and commissions, and defending challenges to law and state lawsuits against both state institutions and individual employees country. These tasks include representing the Director of the Texas Criminal Justice Department in the appeal of criminal penalties in federal courts.
The Texas Constitution grants the Attorney General law enforcement force; but limits the authority of the AGO in criminal cases dictated by law. The Texas Legislature has not provided a broad law enforcement authority to the Attorney General, but permits the Attorney General to act in a prosecutor's "on demand" criminal case.
The Attorney General's Office, the Law Enforcement Division employs a staff of enforced Texas security officers (state police) investigating public corruption, violent crime, human trafficking, money laundering, medicaid provider fraud, mortgage fraud, election offenses, cybercrime, , investigate other special classes of offenses, and conduct criminal investigations at the request of the local prosecutor. In addition, the Law Enforcement Division is the Texas liaison state to Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization) and the US Treasury Department, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
The office is also tasked with the process of obtaining child support through the Child Support Division.
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Political excellence
Many prominent political figures in Texas history have served as Attorney General, some of whom use the office as a place to jump to other offices in the state and national government. Public lawyers James S. Hogg, Charles A. Culberson, Dan Moody, James Allred, Price Daniel, Mark White, and Greg Abbott were elected governors. Culberson, Daniel, and John Cornyn were elected members of the United States Senate.
See also
Note
- The Selected Attorney General (AG) of the State of Texas; Preferred AG from the Republic of Texas
- Resigned
- Appointed
References
- The family court judge highlights unfair child support practices in Texas
External links
- Official Website of the Texas Attorney
- Texas Attorney General article at Legal Newsline Legal Journal
- Texas Attorney General article in ABA Journal
- News and Comments in FindLaw
- US. Supreme Court Opinions - "Case with title containing: State of Texas" in FindLaw
- State Bar of Texas
- The Texas Attorney General's opinion, organized by Portal to the History of Texas.
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