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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 04:04 PM Jan 2022

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

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered to release emails, texts from around Jan. 6 Capitol attack (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2022 OP
I bet it will take the lawsuit. sinkingfeeling Jan 2022 #1
Yep. leftieNanner Jan 2022 #2
Yes. It's become their playbook. hamsterjill Jan 2022 #6
Probably won't happen. kairos12 Jan 2022 #3
He's gonna fight it tooth and nail . ..... Lovie777 Jan 2022 #4
Arrest that sumbitch Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 #5
This will be fun to watch LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #7
Rt TY! Cha Jan 2022 #15
Fuck that lazy-eyed criminal motherfucker! LudwigPastorius Jan 2022 #8
✔️💯 live love laugh Jan 2022 #16
Attorney client privilege? He is an employee of the people so the people should have cstanleytech Jan 2022 #9
Precisely sir. Chief law officer of a state....hiding behind a technicality that does not apply... Alexander Of Assyria Jan 2022 #11
He's the AG. He knows how to fight, so that's what he'll do. n/t Akoto Jan 2022 #10
Time to renew the assault on news media. JohnnyRingo Jan 2022 #12
I thought text's don't belong to the people,owned by the carrier's ? monkeyman1 Jan 2022 #13
The NEW rethuglicons rule? bluestarone Jan 2022 #14
He will destroy as much as he can and stonewall the rest Scalded Nun Jan 2022 #17
Texans here know what a shit weasel Paxton is. Abbott just loves and admires him. flying_wahini Jan 2022 #18
K&R ck4829 Jan 2022 #19

leftieNanner

(14,998 posts)
2. Yep.
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 04:11 PM
Jan 2022

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)
6. Yes. It's become their playbook.
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 04:27 PM
Jan 2022

Stall, stall, stall.

Something ordinary citizens would not get away doing!

cstanleytech

(26,082 posts)
9. Attorney client privilege? He is an employee of the people so the people should have
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 04:39 PM
Jan 2022

the right to know just exactly what their attorney is doing for them.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
11. Precisely sir. Chief law officer of a state....hiding behind a technicality that does not apply...
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 05:20 PM
Jan 2022

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 that’s not solicitor client privilege…lol.

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
12. Time to renew the assault on news media.
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 05:24 PM
Jan 2022

"No good liberal rag", "Commie TV news stations", "Internet lies", and "UnAmerican facts that are trying to make me look bad".

Scalded Nun

(1,231 posts)
17. He will destroy as much as he can and stonewall the rest
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 10:20 AM
Jan 2022

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.

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