Qualifications: What training, experience and characteristics qualify you for this position?
ELECTIONS: How would you protect Texans’ freedom to vote while maintaining safe and secure elections?
IMMIGRATION: How would you address immigration issues affecting our state while ensuring all individuals within our borders have access to due process protections?
PRIORITIES: How would you identify, evaluate, and prioritize which state legal casesto pursue?
LEADERSHIP: What specific improvements or reforms do you envision for the Texas Attorney General’s office in the coming years?
Nathan Johnson
Eight years as a state senator: passing > 100 bills, killing and shaping bills, building coalitions, making government work, exercising independence, leadership, and political judgment; law practice.
We have good laws to keep elections secure, provided that enforcement and audits are fair and consistent. As AG, I will work with DAs around the state to ensure security. As a Senator, I filed bills to protect election workers from harassment (safe and secure), allow voter registration online and same-day, enable citizen ballot initiatives, and move redistricting to an independent commission.
Work with the federal government to speed processing of asylum claims and treat applicants humanely, intercept and deter trafficking of drugs and people, revise Texas’ ill-conceived 287(g) agreement, vastly expand guest worker program, work with other nations to stem the flow of migrants. The U.S. Constitution grants due process to everyone in the United States, including undocumented immigrants.
I would ask three questions: whether there are actions that are harming Texans, whether the actions are illegal, and whether I can prove it. I would emphasize blocking federal overreach, promoting competition in markets, protecting people against violence and commercial scams, and rooting out political corruption. I would end the practice of using the office for personal and political purposes.
Better leadership is needed more than structural reform. I’ll recruit great staff, including attorneys, who are committed to serving the public over serving an ideology. I’ll devote resources to performing the work of the office rather than the work of a political machine. There may be administrative changes and laws yet to pass or change, which we’ll address in concert with the Legislature.
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