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1 Nov 2021, 1:40 pm by Amy Howe
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer suggested that the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton (who sat at counsel table in the courtroom on Monday with Stone), might be an appropriate defendant. [read post]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Friday against the Biden administration, seeking a declaration that the administration’s mandate that all federal contractor employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8th is unconstitutional. [read post]
In a tweet, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called the order “another big win tonight — a victory for life! [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 9:03 pm by Omar Khodor
Department of Justice argued that the law should not be temporarily reinstated because Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had not sufficiently demonstrated that the law is constitutional. [read post]
On Friday, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a motion to stay Judge Pitman’s order with the Fifth Circuit. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 8:44 am by Howard Friedman
“I am sure Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton – who famously spends a good deal of his time composing press releases about religious liberty issues in other states – will be proud to see that Texas’s robust religious liberty laws, which he so vociferously champions, will prevent future Abortion Rituals from being interrupted by superfluous government restrictions meant only to shame and harass those seeking an abortion,” Satanic Temple… [read post]
4 Sep 2021, 10:34 am by Tom Smith
But the governmental defendants explicitly don’t enforce the law,” Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and other state officials told the high court.As The American Conservative senior editor Rod Dreher wrote last June, after the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s heartbeat law, the SCOTUS jurisprudence on abortion is mangled at best. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 9:06 am
 “Applicants do not have standing to sue a state judge or court clerk because a private party might file a lawsuit in his court,” Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, a Republican, wrote in a brief filed Tuesday. [read post]
29 Jul 2021, 2:21 pm by Mukund Rathi
In an amicus brief filed July 23, EFF, along with the Center for Democracy and Technology and other partner organizations, urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to apply this law and protect Twitter from a retaliatory investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. [read post]
17 Jul 2021, 1:00 pm by Michael Lowe
Attorney General Ken Paxton made the following statement regarding the new law: “Texas is the first in the country to punish sex buyers with felonies, which is a substantial step towards curbing the demand for commercial sex. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 1:51 pm by John Floyd
Abbott would prefer that this “right to bail” be reserved for people like his political accomplice and indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
They also show the extent to which Trump worked to enlist then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen in his campaign’s failing legal efforts to challenge the election result. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 9:45 pm by Katelynn Catalano
In response to the ruling, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that he “will continue to fight” the ACA. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 8:22 am by Howard Bashman
“Eva Guzman, former Texas Supreme Court justice, joins GOP primary challenge against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton; Guzman’s candidacy adds a new dynamic to the primary that is already unfolding between incumbent Ken Paxton and Land Commissioner George P. [read post]
29 Apr 2021, 10:45 am by John Floyd
  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently announced that his office, with help from the Federal Trade Commission, shut down a large criminal telefunding operation. [read post]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit in February 2020, alleging that California imposed “economic sanctions” on Texas and other states that “respect religious freedom. [read post]
15 Apr 2021, 3:27 am by Immigration Prof
Official Picture of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Shawn Mulcahy for the Texas Tribubne offers details on the lawsuit brought earlier this week by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. [read post]