to Republicans, or those who vote for them. Everyone else needs to be thrown in jail, or just killed out right.
Texas State Bar Reportedly Investigating AG Ken Paxton Over Supreme Court Case Trying To Overturn Election
Alison Durkee Forbes Staff
The State Bar of Texas is investigating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after he unsuccessfully attempted to overturn the presidential election at the U.S. Supreme Court, the Associated Press reports, which could result in the state’s top prosecutor potentially being punished or disbarred.
Paxton led a legal challenge in December at the Supreme Court against officials in Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that sought to overturn the states’ presidential election results.
The lawsuit was widely derided by legal experts and ultimately failed, but attracted widespread GOP support, including from 17 state attorneys general, more than 100 House lawmakers and then-President Donald Trump, who hailed the lawsuit as “the case that everyone has been waiting for.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/06/09/texas-state-bar-reportedly-investigating-ag-ken-paxton-over-supreme-court-case-trying-to-overturn-election/?sh=658bc9cd7618Texas AG Ken Paxton's Supreme Court lawsuit to overturn Biden's win could get him disbarred
Peter Weber, Senior editor
June 10, 2021
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has been under indictment on state felony fraud charges for nearly six years, he's under investigation by the FBI for allegedly accepting bribes from a real estate developer, and his bid for a third term is under threat from Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, who is basing his primary challenge partly on Paxton's legal troubles. Now, The Associated Press reports, Paxton is facing a disciplinary investigation by the Texas bar association.
The State Bar of Texas originally dismissed a complaint that Paxton had committed professional misconduct by petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn President Biden's victory in four swing states. But the Board of Disciplinary Appeals, a tribunal of 12 independent lawyers appointed by the Texas Supreme Court, overturned that decision late last month, ordering the bar to investigate whether Paxton's lawsuit to overturn Biden's electoral win was frivolous, unethical, and filed in bad faith. AP reported Wednesday.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/02/ken-paxton-whistleblower-appeal/
BY KATE MCGEE JUNE 2, 2021
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is continuing to forcefully push back against accusations of bribery made by a group of former senior aides who reported him to federal and state law enforcement agencies because they claimed he improperly helped a political donor in exchange for personal favors.
Paxton fired the four former aides last year, saying they had gone “rogue” and made “unsubstantiated claims” against him. The aides then filed a whistleblower lawsuit arguing Paxton fired them as retaliation for reporting his alleged behavior to federal and state law enforcement agencies.
In an 85-page brief filed Tuesday with the 3rd Court of Appeals, Paxton’s lawyers argue that under state law, a whistleblower must believe someone has broken the law, but the aides only reported that “they expected laws might be violated.” As a result, they argue, the court should overturn a trial court decision denying the Office of the Attorney General’s plea to dismiss because the court doesn’t have the jurisdiction to hear the case. The lawyers have repeatedly argued Paxton cannot be sued under the Whistleblower Act because he is not a public employee.
Lawyers prosecuting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s fraud case challenge decision to move trial back to his home county
Last month, a divided three-judge panel ruled that the case should move back to Collin County. Prosecutors are asking the full 1st Court of Appeals to review and reverse that ruling, potentially further delaying the 6-year-old case.
BY JAMES BARRAGÁN JUNE 9, 2021
Prosecutors in the felony fraud case against Attorney General Ken Paxton are asking the full 1st Court of Appeals to review a decision by a three-justice panel last month that moved the trial from Harris County back to Collin County, where Paxton lives, potentially adding another delay to a case that is nearly 6 years old.
In May, a panel of three Democratic justices in the 1st Court of Appeals in Houston allowed the case to return to Collin County on a vote of 2-1, ruling that the presiding judge who moved the case out of Collin County in March 2017 had no longer been assigned to the judicial region handling Paxton's case. The ruling was a major victory for Paxton, who had asked the courts to be tried in his home county, a staunchly Republican area of the state where he and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, are major political figures.
Prosecutors in the suit claim Ken Paxton persuaded investors to buy stock in a technology firm without disclosing he would be compensated for it. He was a member of the Texas House at the time. Paxton denies any wrongdoing and says the accusations are politically motivated.
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