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Whatever happens to Paxton, his lawsuits against the USA will redound to his credit and be pursued, even after he goes to the pokey for being a bad, bad boy.
Texas loves to sue the USG, to be a stumbling block against the public weal.
why not?
Whatever happens to Paxton, his lawsuits against the USA will redound to his credit and be pursued, even after he goes to the pokey for being a bad, bad boy.
Texas loves to sue the USG, to be a stumbling block against the public weal.
You ain't turnin' Texas.
back to suppressing the urban vote
it's the Texas Secretary of State's job to approve or deny voter registrations, not Bexar County's
https://x.com/EvilMopacATX/status/1831879369784226031
I'm guessing this is less about Trump and more about saving Ted Cruz
Doesn't look great for Ted Cruz.
The "voter fraud" narrative needs to be stoked and tended too, but at bottom it's a good old-fashioned appeal to racism.
"Too many of those people are voting"
disclosure and ethics are optional for Texas's top lawman
https://x.com/lmcgaughy/status/1836393902812610840
benchslapped by the Texas Supreme Court
https://x.com/cbs11jack/status/1839510400066293807
DOJ drops investigation of Paxton, but he loses the whistleblower lawsuit
No surprise there, Paxton did not dispute the damages nor that he broke the law
The only suspense here is whether the Texas Lege -- which should impeach Paxton again for admitting he broke the law -- will fund the judgment against him
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...rs/ar-AA1CkGAzA Travis County judge has ordered the Texas Attorney General's Office to pay nearly $7 million to the whistleblowers in his office who reported him to the FBI.
The whistleblowers initially sued, claiming they were improperly fired.
This stems from the same set of cir stances that led to Ken Paxton being impeached by the Texas House in 2023. Paxton was ultimately acquitted in his trial in the Texas Senate.
In the judgment, the court said that "Plaintiffs have proved liability, damages, and reasonable and necessary attorney's fees by a preponderance of the evidence. Because the Office of the Attorney General violated the Texas Whistleblower Act by firing and otherwise retaliating against the Plaintiffs for in good faith reporting violations of law by Ken Paxton and OAG, the Court hereby renders judgment for Plaintiffs.”
The court also said that the "OAG (Office of the Attorney General), by and through its counsel of record, elected not to dispute the Plaintiffs' lawsuit as to any issue, including any issue of fact in this case as to the claim or damages," and that “Plaintiffs made their reports to law enforcement in good faith, and OAG terminated each of the Plaintiffs because of their reports to law enforcement in violation of the Texas Whistleblower Act”
Tom Nesbitt, the attorney for Blake Brickman and TJ Turner, the attorney for David Maxwell, released a statement Friday regarding the ruling:
"Late Friday afternoon, after a trial in state district court, our clients were awarded a judgment confirming that the Office of the Attorney General violated the Texas Whistleblower Act. After litigating for more than four years due to OAG's many delay tactics, Ken Paxton finally admitted to breaking the law to avoid being questioned under oath, but also because he had no defense.
"It should shock all Texans that their chief law enforcement officer, Ken Paxton, admitted to violating the law, but that is exactly what happened in this case.
"Now the Texas Legislature needs to do the honorable thing and fund the judgment so these brave public servants can be compensated for the lost pay and damages they suffered when Paxton illegally terminated their employment."
Shortly after the ruling, Paxton released a statement of his own, decrying and pledging to appeal the ruling, while also blaming former Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan and the Biden administration for his impeachment:
"The sham impeachment orchestrated by the disgraced former Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan, in collusion with Joe Biden’s corrupt DOJ, has already cost taxpayers over five million dollars. The Texas Senate rejected their witch hunt after the allegations were proven to be false with no evidence to support them.
Now a liberal Austin judge wants the people of Texas to pay even more for the Phelan/Biden corrupt impeachment scheme with a ridiculous judgment that is not based on the facts or the law.
We will appeal this bogus ruling as we continue to clean up Dade Phelan’s mess."
Last edited by Winehole23; 04-05-2025 at 02:39 PM. Reason: not..nor
Three daysafter a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.
Paxton getting Colin Allred elected to the US Senate is a nonzero possibility
I wonder what the recent discoveries are
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/pol...n-20764827.phpState Sen. Angela Paxton on Thursday filed for divorce from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, court records show.
The McKinney Republican cited “recent discoveries” and “biblical grounds” in a statement on the social media site X.
“I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” she wrote. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”
LATEST: Judge awards $6.7M to whistleblowers who reported Attorney General Ken Paxton to FBI
The couple has been married for 38 years.
The news comes as Ken Paxton is running for U.S. Senate in next spring’s GOP primary against in bent John Cornyn.
Ken ston and Dan trick want to make everything illegal, but there's a catch, they want and would still be able to do all of those illegal things themselves. They don't actually give a crap about morality, they just get a boner over being able to control what other adults are able to do. In a nuts , essentially.
the cited "biblical grounds" could be a lot of things, but adultery came up in the Nate Paul bribery allegation -- Nate Paul allegedly provided the SA love nest
Not surprising. It is what it appears to be: Paxton is a huge up, and a piece of as a person, but wants to be able to have full control (along with Patrick and Abbott) over grown men and women.
They want to be able to transgress till the cows come home, but nobody else better watch legal porn, smoke bud, gamble, abort a fetus in it's lifeless cellular stages, etc. But again, if he or they ever wants to, they'll be able to do all that stuff if they so choose.
the law is a club for the great to bash the meek
and a shield to protect them from the same
"Rules for thee, but not for me". It sounds like trivial buzzwords, but it's a huge truth about right-wing lawmakers, the ones in this state, and otherwise.
when you don't punish official crimes and misbehavior, the criminals keep criming
https://www.propublica.org/article/k...rs-texas-casesOne day in late May 2024, lawyer Zina Bash spent 6 1/2 hours working on a case against Facebook parent company Meta on behalf of the state of Texas. She reviewed draft legal filings. She participated in a court-ordered mediation session and then discussed the outcome with state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
In her previous job as senior counsel on Paxton’s leadership team, that labor would have cost Texas taxpayers $641.
But Bash had moved to private practice. Paxton hired her firm to work on the Meta case, allowing her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work will cost taxpayers $24,570.
In the past five years, Paxton has grown increasingly reliant on pricey private lawyers to argue cases on behalf of the state, rather than the hundreds of attorneys who work within his office, an investigation by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found. These are often attorneys, like Bash, with whom Paxton has personal or political ties.
In addition to Bash, one such contract went to Tony Buzbee, the trial lawyer who successfully defended Paxton during his 2023 impeachment trial on corruption charges. Three other contracts went to firms whose senior attorneys have donated to Paxton’s political campaigns. Despite these connections and what experts say are potential conflicts of interest, Paxton does not appear to have recused himself from the selection process. Although he is not required to by law, this raises a concern about appearing improper, experts who study attorneys general said.
Paxton appears to have also outsourced cases more frequently than his predecessors, available records show. And he’s inked the kind of contingent-fee contracts, in which firms receive a share of a settlement if they win, far more often than the attorneys general in other large states, including California, New York and Pennsylvania. Since 2015, the New York and California attorneys general have awarded zero contingent-fee contracts; Pennsylvania’s has signed one. During that period, Paxton’s office approved 13.
when you don't punish official crimes and misbehavior, the criminals keep criming and misbehaving
https://www.propublica.org/article/k...rs-texas-casesOne day in late May 2024, lawyer Zina Bash spent 6 1/2 hours working on a case against Facebook parent company Meta on behalf of the state of Texas. She reviewed draft legal filings. She participated in a court-ordered mediation session and then discussed the outcome with state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
In her previous job as senior counsel on Paxton’s leadership team, that labor would have cost Texas taxpayers $641.
But Bash had moved to private practice. Paxton hired her firm to work on the Meta case, allowing her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work will cost taxpayers $24,570.
In the past five years, Paxton has grown increasingly reliant on pricey private lawyers to argue cases on behalf of the state, rather than the hundreds of attorneys who work within his office, an investigation by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found. These are often attorneys, like Bash, with whom Paxton has personal or political ties.
In addition to Bash, one such contract went to Tony Buzbee, the trial lawyer who successfully defended Paxton during his 2023 impeachment trial on corruption charges. Three other contracts went to firms whose senior attorneys have donated to Paxton’s political campaigns. Despite these connections and what experts say are potential conflicts of interest, Paxton does not appear to have recused himself from the selection process. Although he is not required to by law, this raises a concern about appearing improper, experts who study attorneys general said.
Paxton appears to have also outsourced cases more frequently than his predecessors, available records show. And he’s inked the kind of contingent-fee contracts, in which firms receive a share of a settlement if they win, far more often than the attorneys general in other large states, including California, New York and Pennsylvania. Since 2015, the New York and California attorneys general have awarded zero contingent-fee contracts; Pennsylvania’s has signed one. During that period, Paxton’s office approved 13.
Good God what a piece of evangelical .
Pile it on:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, are longtime owners of a $1.5 million house in a gated community outside Dallas. In 2015, they snapped up a second home in Austin. Then another.
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records..."
https://apnews.com/article/paxton-mo...f11eac5a3a152e
Paxton and Abbott are fighting about who gets to purge the legislature; AG sent a letter to TX S. Ct. telling them to ignore Gov. and wait for him instead. Abbott rushed to file his own after Paxton said he was waiting until the leg. met again on Friday.https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov...20Breaking.pdf
Abbott gets to purge the opposition for breaking quorum?
BREAKING: I AM GOING UNDERCOVER
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