[1] His annual salary of $275,000 made him the highest-paid employee of the AG's office, with pay higher than the elected attorney general.
[1][2] In late 2020, Webster took part in Paxton's effort to try to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.
[6] After the Commission made adverse findings against him, Webster chose to file an appeal in court rather accept sanctions proposed by the panel.
[6] In September 2022, Judge John Youngblood, a Milam County judge assigned to the case in Williamson County court, dismissed the case against Webster, ruling that "the separation-of-powers doctrine deprives this Court of subject-matter jurisdiction" because the State Bar (part of the judicial branch) would sanction the attorney general's office (part of the executive branch).
[8][a] On May 31, 2023, Governor Greg Abbott appointed lawyer and lobbyist John B. Scott as interim attorney general for the remainder of Paxton's suspension.