Abbott seeking higher office?
Save Gov. Rick Perry, no statewide politician in Texas has mounted the sort of furious offensive against the policies of President Barack Obama more than Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Over the past two years, Abbott has challenged new rules that aimed to reduce air pollution from factories and refineries, an Environmental Protection Agency finding that greenhouse gases threaten the environment, the president's health-care reform law and the fight over funding a health-care program for women.
He escalated his opposition to a new level Wednesday, openly challenging the constitutionality of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation that aimed to knock down barriers that Jim Crow-era laws had imposed to keep minorities from voting.
His argument is a tea party favorite: that the Obama administration action has violated states' rights.
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