Greg Abbott’s War https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/greg-abbotts-war/ (September 2012)
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Greg Abbott’s War https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/greg-abbotts-war/ (September 2012)
Greg Abbott Quotes
Gregory Wayne Abbott is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 48th Governor of Texas since January 2015. A Republican, Abbott previously served as the 50th Attorney General of Texas from 2002 to 2015. He is the first governor since George Wallace to permanently use a wheelchair.A member of the Republican Party, Abbott was the second Republican to serve as Attorney General of Texas since Reconstruction. Prior to assuming the office of attorney general, he was a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, a position to which he was initially appointed in 1995 by then-Governor George W. Bush. He is noted outside of Texas for successfully advocating for the right of the state of Texas to display the Ten Commandments in front of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, in a 2005 United States Supreme Court case known as Van Orden v. Perry.
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