Dodging and weaving as though he was getting a mobilization notice from putler!
Texas AG dodging and shading the law has been pretty much what he's been paid to do. Our lead lawyer is a crook.
(Allegedly)
(In a recent political universe he'd be drummed out of the GOP and tried in court, in this one his corruption has its uses, so he's meekly tolerated.)
Before 2016 he’d be condemned by everyone in his own party, now he’s praises for triggering the libs.
https://apnews.com/article/elections...3666b70f74f2b2Gleason was fired less than two months into his new job as a law enforcement adviser. Paxton’s office has not disclosed why, but three people with knowledge of the matter said Gleason included child pornography in a work presentation at the agency’s Austin headquarters.
The people said Gleason displayed the video — which one of them described as showing a man raping a small child — in a misguided effort to underscore agency investigators difficult work. It was met with outrage and caused the meeting to quickly dissolve.
https://www.wonkette.com/ken-paxton-...dge-ya-basOf Texas's several insane abortion laws, the nonprofit groups filed the lawsuit in August to seek protection from the state's "trigger" law, House Bill 1280, so they can continue raising funds and paying for Texans to get abortions in states where the procedure is still legal. The complaint complains that Texas's efforts to shut down all abortions in the state "have not been limited to abortion itself," but that
Agents of the State of Texas contend that virtually every activity of those who assist pregnant Texans to understand their rights and medical options is now subject to criminal prosecution. The threats have been repeated and far-ranging, and the intimidation has chilled helping professionals from providing counseling, financial, logistical, and even informational assistance to pregnant Texans who may need to access abortion care outside of the state.The complaint also specifically notes Texas legislators' and activists' public pronouncements that all reproductive rights groups would be "held liable for years of being complicit in murder," even for activities that were legal before the overturning of Roe, and which remain legal now.
We suppose that must explain why Paxton dodged the process server and then threatened that he would have been justified in using deadly force: He really believed he was dealing with known murderers, after all.
In his order yesterday, Pitman wrote that he had quashed the subpoena last week
on the assumption that counsel for Paxton had made candid representations to the Court … only to learn later that Paxton failed to disclose Plaintiffs’ repeated emails attempting to inquire as to whether Paxton could testify.Yeah, judges don't like it when you fib about stuff like that, Ken. Pitman also agreed with the plaintiffs that Paxton needs to testify because he's the one who would be making decisions about whether the groups would be pursued for helping Texans get abortions elsewhere:
The Court will not sanction a scheme where Paxton repeatedly labels his threats of prosecution as real for the purposes of deterrence and as hypothetical for the purposes of judicial review.And for good measure, Pitman seemed not to buy Paxton's claims that as the top lawyer for Texas, he can't be bothered to testify, so underlings can take care of that:
It is challenging to square the idea that Paxton has time to give interviews threatening prosecutions but would be unduly burdened by explaining what he means to the very parties affected by his statements. [...] The burden faced by Plaintiffs—the effective cessation of many core operations—outweighs the burden of testimony faced by Paxton.
Don't lie to a judge and get caught, they'll choadbload you.
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