Aaron Reitz, whom President Donald Trump tapped to help lead the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy, announced a bid on Thursday to become Texas’s next attorney general. 

Reitz, also a close ally to outgoing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, touted his ties to the Trump administration in a campaign announcement in which he vowed to “be on the frontlines defending the MAGA movement.” Pointing to his record, including suing the “lawless and crooked” Biden administration 46 times while he was Paxton’s right-hand man, Reitz suggested he would “use every ounce of legal firepower to defend President Trump, crush the radical Left, advance the America and Texas First agenda, and look out for everyday Texans.”