Aaron Reitz

to give the lines within which the legislature colored.

I'm proud of the fact that I was the lead author under Attorney General Ken Paxton's opinion that defined unequivocally these trans procedures as child abuse under the Texas Family Code.

Once we provided the legislature with that guidance, they finally acted.

Now, I hope that I get a minute in rebuttal to say this too.

Mays is exactly right about Chip.

Chip did what exactly President Trump described about him, which was to make a mountain out of a molehill, to grandstand, to make nothing out of an issue.

Why?

Only to concede ground to the trans lobby.

That's Chip Roy.

The first time I ever swore an oath to the U.S.

Constitution was as a brand-new second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.

I was 22 years old, my hair sadly fast approaching its current state,

And I raised my right hand and I said, I, Aaron Reitz, do solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The next time that I swore that oath was in the West Wing with my wife and four kids on my left and the Attorney General of the United States on my right.

And I raised my hand and I said the exact same oath.

Now, as a younger man, I primarily thought about the foreign threats to our Constitution.

And I lived it as somebody who deployed to the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.

But I have come to fully appreciate that today the primary threats that we are facing are the domestic enemies of the Constitution.

And they are fighting a vicious war against us in the justice system.

We need an Attorney General who is battle-tested, who is proven, who's been endorsed by Paxton to succeed him, to wage war and win on behalf of our conservative, Republican, Christian, Texas, and American values.