Judge rules Texas attorney general does not have to appear at hearing on abortion lawsuit [View all]
Source: CNN Politics
CNN — A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that state Attorney General Ken Paxton does not have to appear at a hearing related to abortion access lawsuit after an affidavit alleged that he ran away twice from a person who was serving him a subpoena related to the lawsuit. The subpoena was part of a lawsuit filed in August by several abortion funds, as well as by an individual abortion provider, seeking to block Texas officials from bringing cases under Texas’ abortion bans for conduct that happened out of state or before Roe v. Wade was overturned.
The affidavit says two subpoenas were issued for Paxton, one under his professional title as attorney general and another addressed to him individually. Paxton’s office filed a motion to quash the subpoenas saying they were not proper and had not been effectively served. Paxton refused to engage a person trying to serve him at his home Monday morning, according to the motion. On Tuesday, a Texas judge granted Paxton’s request to quash and seal the subpoena to appear at the hearing.
“Top executive officials should not be called to testify absent extraordinary circumstances,” according to the motion, obtained by CNN, and claim the “entire reason” he is named as a defendant is because he is a high-ranking government official. The motion also notes that as an individual, Paxton has no information relevant to the plaintiff’s claims.
On Monday morning, Ernesto Martin Herrera served the subpoenas to Paxton at his home, the affidavit says. Herrera knocked on the front door and a woman opened it, where he shared that he was there to give Paxton important legal documents, the affidavit continues. She said that Paxton was on the phone and that he was in a hurry to leave, so Herrera left his card and went to sit in his car to wait.
Almost an hour later, a car drove into the home’s garage and Paxton exited the vehicle, the affidavit says. “I walked up the driveway approaching Mr. Paxton and called him by his name,” the affidavit says. “As soon as he saw me and heard me call his name out, he turned around and RAN back inside the house through the same door in the garage.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/politics/ken-paxton-subpoena-affidavit/index.html
I *had* to post this because just the headline alone of Paxton "running (sic) from (the) person serving (the) subpoena" was worth the time!
PA's AG and now-gubernatorial candidate, had to clean-up the shit that Paxton foisted on this state as a waste of our time and money right after the 2020 election.
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BREAKING: Texas vs. Pennsylvania has been DENIED by the Supreme Court.
Our nation’s highest court saw through this seditious abuse of our electoral process.
This swift denial should make anyone contemplating further attacks on our election think twice.
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6:43 PM · Dec 11, 2020
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