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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]
19 Feb 2021, 9:14 am by John Floyd
Abbott and his cohort, Attorney General Ken Paxton, do not see it that way. [read post]
25 May 2023, 2:43 am by Seán Binder
  Investigators found that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had sought to interfere in an FBI probe into Austin real-estate investor Nate Paul, a friend of Paxton’s who donated $25,000 to him. [read post]
20 Jul 2019, 4:14 am by SHG
Dan Patrick, Speaker Dennis Bonnen and Attorney General Ken Paxton, have sent out a letter urging counties to continue to prosecute marijuana cases. [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 6:34 pm
By Valerie Edwards For Dailymail.com and Associated Press Published: 10:17 EDT, 24 March 2020 | Updated: 17:27 EDT, 24 March 2020 Texas Gov Greg Abbott (pictured on Wednesday) has barred 'any type of abortion that is not medically necessary to preserve the life or health of a mother' amid the coronavirus outbreakTexas Gov Greg Abbott has announced a move to ban most abortions in the state during the coronavirus outbreak, declaring they don't qualify as essential… [read post]
7 Aug 2015, 6:36 am by Jim Sedor
“Government can’t pick winners and losers in the political marketplace,” Jim Manley, senior attorney at the Goldwater Institute, told reporters before the hearing. [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 4:30 pm by Mark Walsh
Soon enough, they are joined by a third chair, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican who has been under indictment on state securities-fraud charges for more than six years. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 6:46 am by Amy Starnes
— The Texas Tribune Texas A.G. warns consumers about buying flood-damaged vehicles — From Texas Attorney General’s Office – Attorney General Ken Paxton today is advising any Texan considering a used car purchase to be wary of vehicles for sale that might have suffered flood damage from Hurricane Harvey. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 6:46 am by Amy Starnes
— The Texas Tribune Texas A.G. warns consumers about buying flood-damaged vehicles — From Texas Attorney General’s Office – Attorney General Ken Paxton today is advising any Texan considering a used car purchase to be wary of vehicles for sale that might have suffered flood damage from Hurricane Harvey. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 3:37 am by Lyle Denniston
 In a brief motion, which said that it would take effect even without the judge’s approval,  state Attorney General Ken Paxton said that the Trump Administration’s new move to “phase out” the remaining DACA program and its earlier move to end the parental part of the deferred deportation policy led to the decision to voluntarily end that case. [read post]
15 May 2020, 10:02 am by Amy Starnes
(Subscription required) — Texas Lawyer Texas appeals court allows expansion of voting by mail during ongoing legal fight — The appeals court ruled against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who argued that a lower court ruling expanding who can qualify for an absentee ballot during the coronavirus pandemic should have no effect while he appeals it. [read post]
10 Dec 2021, 11:11 am by Amy Howe
The providers also cannot sue the state attorney general, Ken Paxton, to prevent him from enforcing S.B. 8, Gorsuch continued. [read post]
12 Dec 2020, 2:23 pm by John Floyd
    The governor, and his out-on-personal-recognizance-bond sidekick, Attorney General Ken Paxton, moved quickly to end that compassionate response to the virus. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 1:06 pm by John Floyd
  One month after Hope’s certiorari petition was filed with the Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Department of Criminal Justice Director Bryan Collier sought to moot Hope’s claim by transferring the inmate into a lesser restrictive housing unit and placing him on a review path for a return to the general prison population. [read post]
13 Dec 2020, 6:34 pm by Matt Cooper
Texas Attorney Ken Paxton asserted that the interests of Texas citizens were harmed when non-legislative actors in these states “amended” election laws in violation of the Electors Clause of the U.S. [read post]
13 Sep 2018, 7:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
If the blue wave goes that deep, one might expect Sharon Keller to lose her seat on the Court of Criminal Appeals as well, and for Attorney General Ken Paxton to at least be getting nervous on election night.That would be unexpected, and I certainly wouldn't bet on it. [read post]
12 May 2018, 7:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"AG pitch on revenge porn a PR moveMark Bennett has written how some folks simply can't believe the US Supreme Court meant what it's said in rulings about protected speech, and apparently Attorney General Ken Paxton is one of them. [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 9:03 pm by Henry Miller
Governor Abbott’s directive follows an opinion from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that gender-affirming treatments, including gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy, can “legally constitute child abuse under several provisions” of Texas law. [read post]
4 May 2018, 10:30 am by skelly
In February of this year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimmel, lead a 20-state coalition in a federal lawsuit[3] against defendants, HHS and the IRS, to invalidate ACA on constitutional grounds since, beginning next year, the individual mandate will no longer serve as a mechanism to raise tax revenues. [read post]
22 Jul 2023, 12:22 pm by John Floyd
  At the time, now impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton unlawfully inserted himself in this political fray without any legitimate reason, siding with the three conservative attorneys. [read post]