The Texas Tribune reports:

More than just campaign trail grandstanding, promises from both candidates to use the agency to try to overturn decades-old Supreme Court precedent offer a glimpse at how Texas’ next attorney general could go even further than outgoing incumbent Ken Paxton in channeling the office’s powers toward pursuit of the conservative legal movement’s white whales.

Empowered by the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court’s current favorable makeup, conservatives are itching to go after other long-standing rulings such as those allowing gay marriage, keeping religion out of government and giving the feds authority over the states.

Last session, Sen. Mayes Middleton helped carry a bill to require public schools to hang the 10 Commandments in classrooms, which a judge blocked from taking effect, citing a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that found such a requirement to be unconstitutional. US Rep. Chip Roy talked about wanting to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 same-sex marriage ruling. “There’s a war raging against our souls as Texans, and those things need to be fought,” he said at the campaign forum.

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