How the hell can AG TX Ken Paxton start jailing people in another state Washington for not complying with his order?
This is bullshit to me. Fuck this guy!
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-ag-threatens-seattle-hospital
Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent a civil investigative demand to Seattle Children's Hospital, demanding data on all Texas patients traveling for care, despite having no jurisdiction there.
According to a complaint filed by Seattle Children’s Hospital in Travis County on December 7, the office of the attorney general under AG Ken Paxton has demanded that the hospital turn over patient data for transgender patients who traveled or moved from Texas. The demands include “no redaction” and apply to any Texas trans youth. The letter also states that the hospital is required by law to “wean children off of” gender-affirming care if they travel or have moved from Texas. The letter lists several other records-related demands and even threatens Seattle hospital workers with jail time if they do not comply.
Seattle responded to the request by filing a lawsuit in Travis County, stating they cannot comply because Texas has no jurisdiction in Washington State, and no care was provided by the hospital in Texas. They also point out that the Dormant Commerce Clause, protected by the United States Constitution, “protects the right to interstate travel, including to obtain healthcare services.” By targeting out-of-state hospitals for enforcement of laws that only apply within the jurisdiction of Texas, they “discriminate against healthcare based on an interstate element,” violating constitutional protections, according to the legal filing. Lastly, Seattle Children’s Hospital cannot comply due to a shield law passed by Washington State. This law bars the hospital from providing any patient data and from responding to subpoenas pursuant to “protected healthcare services” obtained within the jurisdiction of Washington. Protected healthcare services include abortion, reproductive care, and gender-affirming care.
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Or it could be because he's an asshole 
Did texass finally secede without the paperwork?
He sure is out there in la-la land with this bs. The whole government there seem to think they aren't part of the country and want a divorce, I was just wondering if we were there yet or already writing the alimony checks.
literally suing other states because he didn't like how they ran their elections. The suits were filed against here in PA and other states that he wanted to participate in the coup.
The suit, filed directly in the Supreme Court, sought to bar Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from casting their electoral votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr.
By Adam Liptak
Published Dec. 11, 2020Updated Jan. 15, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit by Texas that had asked the court to throw out the election results in four battleground states that President Trump lost in November, ending any prospect that a brazen attempt to use the courts to reverse his defeat at the polls would succeed. The court, in a brief unsigned order, said Texas lacked standing to pursue the case, saying it “has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections.”
The order, coupled with another one on Tuesday turning away a similar request from Pennsylvania Republicans, signaled that a conservative court with three justices appointed by Mr. Trump refused to be drawn into the extraordinary effort by the president and many prominent members of his party to deny his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., his victory.
It was the latest and most significant setback for Mr. Trump in a litigation campaign that was rejected by courts at every turn. Texas’ lawsuit, filed directly in the Supreme Court, challenged election procedures in four states: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It asked the court to bar those states from casting their electoral votes for Mr. Biden and to shift the selection of electors to the states’ legislatures. That would have required the justices to throw out millions of votes.
Mr. Trump has said he expected to prevail in the Supreme Court, after rushing the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in October in part in the hope that she would vote in Mr. Trump’s favor in election disputes.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/politics/supreme-court-election-texas.html
Then-AG (now PA Gov.) Josh Shapiro ridiculed him unmercifully in a court filing -
By Summer Concepcion | December 10, 2020 5:41 p.m.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Wednesday decried Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit boosting President Trump’s long-shot attempts at overturning election results as “seditious” and built on an “absurd” foundation.
In a 43-page brief signed by Shapiro and six of his deputies, the battleground state’s attorney general argued that Paxton is bringing “only discredited allegations and conspiracy theories” in waging his last-ditch effort at Trump winning a second term.
“The Court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated,” Shapiro said. “In support of such a request, Texas brings to the Court only discredited allegations and conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact.” Shapiro added that “accepting Texas’s view would do violence to the Constitution and the Framers’ vision.”
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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) spearheaded the effort to strong-arm his House GOP colleagues into signing the brief. “This brief presents [our] concern as Members of Congress, shared by untold millions of their constituents, that the unconstitutional irregularities involved in the 2020 presidential election cast doubt upon its outcome and the integrity of the American system of elections,” the amicus brief signed by 106 GOP lawmakers said.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pennsylvania-attorney-general-shapiro-seditious-texas-lawsuit
(interesting whose name comes up in the above
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Many of us had hoped Paxton would be history after his impeachment. But once he wasn't convicted, now he has his 2nd wind to go full on loon.
