Texas Attorney General opinions
Every formal Attorney General opinion issued since 2002, straight from the Attorney General’s own published index — 1,631 in all, each linked to the official PDF. Most were issued by Greg Abbott (2002–2015) and Ken Paxton (2015–present); twelve were issued in 2023 by John Scott and Angela Colmenero, who each served as Provisional Attorney General that year.
What an AG opinion is — and is not. When a Texas official asks the Attorney General a question about what the law means, the office issues a numbered, dated written answer. It interprets existing law; it does not make law, and it is not a court ruling. Courts may agree or disagree with it.
Why this sits next to voting records. A legislator leaves a vote trail. An Attorney General does not — so comparing the two usually collapses into dueling press clips. Opinions are the closest thing the office has to a public, dated, numbered record of what it actually decided. Shown here with the office’s own subject tags, so you can judge them yourself.
Topic tags. Where the AG’s own category headings map onto the issue areas used elsewhere on this site, the opinion is tagged. A tag marked like this* was matched from the subject line instead, because the AG index has no heading for that topic — it is our inference, not the office’s label.
Everything here comes from the official record: the Texas House and Senate Journals, capitol.texas.gov, lrl.texas.gov and the Attorney General’s own published index.
No ratings, no report cards, no spin. Arithmetic on the record and nothing more — readers draw their own conclusions.
Every vote links to the journal page it came from, and every opinion links to the Attorney General’s official PDF.
Where the record is incomplete — voice votes, missing tallies, garbled scans — the site says so plainly instead of papering over it.