How did he go "behind their backs," pray tell?
By sponsoring primary challengers against the judges because he didn’t like their 8-1 ruling restricting him to his constitutional powers.
It’s bad enough when scuzzy trial lawyers do that here in Houston (it just happened in the Democrat primary yesterday, in fact), but it’s worse when the lawyer entrusted with representing the State does it. This is more like FDR or the Biden Administration threatening to pack SCOTUS because they don’t like the rulings.