Tag Archives: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s top assistant leaves to help get conservative judges on the federal bench

AUSTIN — Jeff Mateer, the top lawyer working under Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, is leaving government service to rejoin a prominent Plano-based conservative nonprofit law firm helping to nominate judges to federal courts. The First Liberty Institute hired Mateer and Hannah Clayson Smith, an attorney at Schaerr Jaffe, to work on judicial selection and “defending religious liberty across America,” Executive General …

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