High-Profile Group of Lawyers Seeks to Suspend or Disbar Texas AG Ken Paxton

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Kyle Griffin
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Four former State Bar of Texas Presidents have joined other distinguished attorneys to file an ethics complaint urging Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to be suspended or disbarred.

The complaint asserts a pattern of serious ethical misconduct.

High-Profile Group of Lawyers Seeks to Suspend or Disbar Texas AG Ken Paxton | Texas Lawyer
A complaint filed Wednesday alleges Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's support of efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election brought dishonor to Texas lawyers and the legal profession.
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7:00 AM · Jul 22, 2021

https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2021/07/21/high-profile-group-of-lawyers-seeks-to-suspend-or-disbar-texas-ag-ken-paxton/

A group of Texas lawyers, including four past presidents of the State Bar of Texas, filed a complaint Wednesday asking bar regulators to suspend or disbar Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for actions supporting efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.

Asserting Paxton has brought “dishonor” to his fellow Texas lawyers and the legal profession, the group of 16 prominent Texas lawyers and the group Lawyers Defending American Democracy said in the complaint that Paxton has engaged in a pattern of “serious violations” of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct.

The group cited the U.S. Supreme Court action Paxton filed in December 2020 seeking to overturn the election results, which the court dismissed for lack of standing. He wanted the court to enjoin four states that went for Democrat Joe Biden from using the results of their elections to appoint electors, and instead to appoint new electors or none at all.

The complaint also alleges Paxton continued after that to engage in “ethical violations” in support of Trump’s effort to overturn the election results, including by urging a crowd of people near the White House on Jan. 6 to march to the U.S. Capital to pressure Congress to change what it was meeting to do, which was to “properly count Electoral College votes and declare the rightful winner.”

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