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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 spokesperson… [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]
31 Jul 2021, 10:57 am by John Floyd
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who himself is on bail for felony securities fraud charges, praised the Texas Supreme Court for its decision in upholding Abbott’s order. [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]
22 Jul 2021, 4:02 pm by Kathryn Rubino
Ken Paxton's Bar Complaint: Consequences, man. [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
National/Federal Biden’s Vow to Limit Ethics Conflicts Finds a Test Case: The Ricchetti brothers MSN – Michael Scherer and Sean Sullivan (Washington Post) | Published: 6/14/2021 President Biden vowed to ban his own family from involvement in government, disclose records of White House visitors, and support new legislation that would expand the definition of lobbying and mandate more detailed disclosure of contacts with White House officials. [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]
17 Jun 2021, 6:00 pm by Howard Bashman
Garrett of The Dallas Morning News reports that “Texas loses again as Supreme Court dismisses multi-state challenge to Obama health law; Texas AG Ken Paxton insists he will keep fighting the law even after the court ruled 7-2 to keep it intact, reversing lower court opinions. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 9:28 am by Joseph Fishkin
It would be interesting to know the results of such a study; that way Texas AG Ken Paxton and his allies could at least marginally advance human knowledge, in their Quixotic quest to sicken and kill thousands of Texas citizens by throwing them off their health insurance plans and returning to the days of denials of coverage for pre-existing conditions.To be very clear here: if the Court had held that plaintiffs did have standing, the plaintiffs should certainly have lost anyway,… [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]
11 Jun 2021, 6:21 am by James Romoser
Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court Limits Sweep of Law on Mandatory Minimum Sentences (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) Supreme Court limits federal law requiring enhanced sentences for repeat offenders (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post) Indiana Supreme Court Finally Puts an End to the Timbs Asset Forfeiture Case — “Reminiscent of Captain Ahab’s Chase of the White Whale Moby Dick” (Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy) Texas AG Ken… [read post]