Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered to release emails, texts from around Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Source: The Week
The Travis County district attorney's office in Austin informed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Thursday that he had violated the state's open record laws by refusing to release any of his communications from around last Jan. 6, when Paxton was in Washington, D.C., and appeared at the rally the preceded the Capitol siege. District Attorney José Garza (D) gave Paxton four days to "cure this violation" by turning over the documents or face a lawsuit.
The Texas Public Information Act gives the public the right to government records, including those on personal devices or a public official's online accounts. Paxton has tried to claim attorney-client privilege for every email and text he sent in the days surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. The top editors of five newspapers the Austin American-Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle, and the San Antonio Express-News filed a complaint with the Travis County D.A. on Jan. 4, accusing Paxton of violating the open records law.
The attorney general typically enforces the Public Information Act, but the law also allows the Travis County district attorney's office to handle violations filed against a state agency. The newspapers filed their complaint with Garza.
Bill Aleshire, an attorney and transparency expert, told the Chronicle this is the first time he's heard of the statee attorney general being accused of violating the open records law to shield his own communications. "When the public official responsible for enforcing public records laws violates those laws himself, it puts a dagger in the heart of transparency at every level in Texas," he said. "Why should other Texas officials be transparent with public information if the AG himself is not?"
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-113119464.html
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)leftieNanner
(14,998 posts)And as many appeals as he can muster, if he loses.
We're all still waiting for him to face the music on that previous indictment.
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)Stall, stall, stall.
Something ordinary citizens would not get away doing!
kairos12
(12,817 posts)MAGA doesn't believe in court decisions, unless they favor them.
Lovie777
(11,992 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(9,854 posts)It's long past time for him to be doing the perp walk.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)Cha
(295,929 posts)LudwigPastorius
(8,944 posts)live love laugh
(13,009 posts)cstanleytech
(26,082 posts)the right to know just exactly what their attorney is doing for them.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)what a ruse this is to claim it here
what attorneys was he meeting and for what privileged consultation? A judge will ask these questions in an under oath contempt hearing
no need for specifics, just names and general subject
was it somehow related to personal legal affairs
or the insurrection?
Betting the latter..so thats not solicitor client privilege
lol.
Akoto
(4,261 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)"No good liberal rag", "Commie TV news stations", "Internet lies", and "UnAmerican facts that are trying to make me look bad".
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)bluestarone
(16,722 posts)We won't even listen to judges and courts!
Scalded Nun
(1,231 posts)This person lives by no rules, and seemingly gets away with it every fucking time. I'd love to see him held to account and behind bars.
flying_wahini
(6,529 posts)ck4829
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