Well before jumping into the Texas attorney general's race, Democrat Rochelle Garza beat back a Trump administration attempt to stop a detained immigrant teenager from getting an abortion.
Incumbent Attorney General Ken Paxton backed the administration in that 2017 case, warning in a brief that "Texas must not become a sanctuary state for abortions." But Garza, an immigration lawyer, won in the appeals court and the teenager got the abortion.
Democrats like Garza hope to ride the abortion issue into office in November on a wave of feminist anger over the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
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