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22 Jul 2020, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
A July 17 press release from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reads in part:Attorney General Ken Paxton today issued a guidance letter to religious private schools in Texas, informing them that local public health orders attempting to restrict their reopenings violate the United States and Texas Constitutions and the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act. [read post]
24 Nov 2019, 1:30 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
This unconstitutional statute infringes on patients’ right to life and does not allow patients and their families sufficient notice and the opportunity to be heard before physicians override the rights of their patients,” said Attorney General Paxton. [read post]
16 May 2018, 12:46 pm by Akira Tomlinson
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accuses [press release]... [read post]
27 May 2016, 6:02 pm by Jim Caton
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton boasted on Wednesday that 10 states have joined the Lone Star State in challenging President Barack Obama’s directive that transgender students be allowedThe post Transgender-Bathroom Hysteria Is the Distraction of the Month appeared first on Legal Reader. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 8:21 am by Tom Smith
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the U.S. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 7:29 am by Keegan Boyle
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas will be leading the bipartisan investigation, which will focus on Google’s monopoly of online advertising markets. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Texas Tribune reports that in an Aug. 3 notice, the State Bar of Texas announced that it is dismissing an ethics complaint signed by over 200 Texas lawyers claiming that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton "violated his own official oath of office" last summer when he issued an Opinion and statement on the right of public officials to assert religious objections to issuing marriage licenses or performing same-sex marriages. [read post]
11 Feb 2016, 10:06 am by Howard Wasserman
The ethics complaint filed against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last summer will proceed to a State Bar investigation. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 11:08 am by Howard Wasserman
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a non-binding opinion letter about implementation of Obergefell. [read post]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint with the US Supreme Court Tuesday against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, seeking to overturn their 2020 presidential election results. [read post]
26 Feb 2023, 1:40 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Vox: “Earlier this month, Texas’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit claiming that the $1.7 trillion spending law that keeps most of the federal government — including the US military — operating through September of 2023 is unconstitutional. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 1:16 pm by Akira Tomlinson
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [official website], who is confident the court will rule for the state, said [press release], "Texas values the dignity of the remains of the unborn and believes that fetal tissue should be... [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 5:27 pm by Howard Bashman
” Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial that begins, “Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, seems intent on developing a name for himself as the patron saint of lost legal causes. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 11:39 am by Patrick Sherry
A coalition of 20 states, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [official profile], filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Monday alleging that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is now unconstitutional after the passing of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 [statutes, PDF] removed the tax penalty present in the ACA. [read post]
31 May 2023, 4:08 am by Richard Pildes
From Newsweek: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said former President Donald Trump would have lost in Texas in the 2020 election if his office had not successfully blocked counties from mailing out applications for mail-in ballots to… Continue reading The post “Texas AG Says Trump Would’ve ‘Lost’ State If It Hadn’t Blocked Mail-in Ballots Applications Being Sent Out” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 6:42 am by Howard Bashman
” The broadcast also contained an audio segment titled “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Biden administration over abortion guidance. [read post]
10 Nov 2015, 4:25 am by Howard Friedman
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week issued Opinion No. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 12:58 pm by Tom Smith
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s leading the lawsuit, alleges the battleground states acted unconstitutionally by changing their voting rules to expand access amid the Covid-19 pandemic. [read post]