Texas State Bar

The State Bar of Texas treats rule of law, attorney professional ethics, judicial independence, integrity of the legal profession, and access to justice for the indigent as its core values. Cornyn fits the State Bar framework substantially well: former Texas Supreme Court Justice (1991-1997) and former Texas Attorney General (1999-2002) with decades of professional record in good standing, has championed federal judicial-independence legislation, and has supported access-to-justice programs through Senate appropriations. The State Bar has had professional misconduct charges pending against Paxton since 2022 over his Texas v. Pennsylvania (2020) election lawsuit; the Bar's framework would treat his whole record as a serial violation — the impeachment was rooted in alleged abuse of his office as the state's chief lawyer, the Tribune/ProPublica forum-shopping investigation documents practices the Bar's grievance committee treats as professional misconduct. The widest single-grader margin in Cornyn's favor on the entire ballot.