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AG Paxton files amicus brief to protect pregnancy center’s free speech
Austin – Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined a 10-state amicus brief urging a federal appeals court to support a religious organization’s right to freedom to speak about and offer alternatives to abortion. -
AGs hail Trump's executive order dismantling the Clean Power Plan
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey was on hand as President Trump signed an executive order blocking the previous administration's Clean Power Plan. -
Paxton files amicus brief on immigration order, says president has 'discretion to protect safety of the American people'
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton is throwing support to the president’s immigration order. -
Implementing Obergefell: An Addendum
In a prior post, I discussed the Pidgeon v. Turner case, now pending before the Texas Supreme Court, involving a taxpayer challenge to same-sex spousal benefits. Oral argument was held on March 1. The taxpayers challenging the city of Houston’s policy of granting same-sex spousal benefits to city employees were represented at oral argument by Jonathan Mitchell, a former Scalia clerk, former Texas solicitor general, and now a visiting professor at Stanford law school. The city of Houston was represented by Douglas Alexander, a leading appellate practitioner in an Austin law firm whose partners include former Texas Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson. The oral argument was superb, and both counsel fielded numerous questions from the fully-engaged justices. -
AG Paxton: 5th Circuit’s ruling preserves Texas’ stay of EPA Regional Haze Rule
AUSTIN –On March 23, Attorney General Ken Paxton praised a ruling by the 5th U.S. -
Attorney general disagrees with federal ruling of gerrymandering of state congressional maps
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton disagreed with a ruling made by federal judges claiming Republican lawmakers used gerrymandering when redrawing congressional district lines and lessening the voting power of minorities. -
States call for an end to EPA 'overreach' in letter
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other attorneys general have written a letter to the Administrator of the Environment Protection Agency Scott Pruitt calling for an end to the "federal overreach" of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a press release from Paxton's office. -
The AG’s Consumer Protection Division is the Voice of Texas Consumers
Newspapers have dedicated many inches of column space in the course of covering my office’s entanglements with the federal government. So much so, residents might be tempted to believe that pushing back against the regulatory leviathan was the attorney general’s principal, if not sole, responsibility. The truth is, however, that these lawsuits represent but a slender slice of what is entrusted to our care. -
Paxton on Trump's immigration order: 'Action shows decisiveness in answer to very real danger'
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has voiced support of President Donald Trump’s latest executive order regarding immigration. -
Attorney general files complaint against construction company that allegedly scammed consumers
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office filed a lawsuit against a Texas construction company that allegedly cost consumers thousands of dollars in a home-building scam. -
Paxton, others withdraw federal transgender lawsuit
CHARLESTON — Declaring victory, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas counterpart Ken Paxton have withdrew their coalition’s 13-state lawsuit against former President Obama’s transgender directive. -
Texas AG encouraged By Trump's move to reverse protections for transgender students
AUSTIN, TX -The Trump administration’s move to rescind Obama-era transgender students’ protections, which allows them to use bathrooms and facilities in public schools that correspond with their gender identities, has the Texas attorney general feeling hopeful. -
Paxton files amicus brief in case involving Lutheran pastors' dispute over compensation
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed an amicus brief on behalf of six states in the case of Portico Benefit Services v. Bacon, a case Paxton's office called -
Texas AG: Amicus brief filed to protect 2nd Amendment rights outside of the home
AUSTIN – On Feb. 21, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas joined an Alabama-led 26-state coalition in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Lone Star Justice
Is Texas’s attorney general a corrupt officeholder or an innocent official being railroaded by political rivals? -
Paxton files petition on EPA's sulfur dioxide standards
AUSTIN – A petition has been filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the 5th Circuit and the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court requesting that the air quality standards for sulfur dioxide, as issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, be reviewed. -
Paxton files amicus brief in case of military member's discipline over posting Bible verse
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in the case of Monifa Sterling v. the United States. -
U.S. Supreme Court should reject lower court's loose venue interpretation
“When a single district court hears so many cases, not because of convenience or connection to the dispute, but because it is chosen by litigants on one side, the perception of a neutral justice system is undermined.” That's one of several cogent comments made by Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton and 16 other state AGs in an amicus brief filed last week in a U.S. -
Implementing Obergefell: Who Decides the Scope of a Newly Minted Right?
The Supreme Court’s fractured decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) required states to recognize same-sex marriage. Obergefell came less than 30 years after Bowers v. Hardwick,[1] in which the court refused to recognize a right to engage in homosexual sodomy. In changing its mind, the Court effectively amended the U.S. Constitution with its Delphic utterances. -
Texas AG leads coalition in SCTOUS amicus brief against abusive patent suits
AUSTIN – Leading a coalition of 17 states, Attorney General Ken Paxton on Feb. 6 filed an amicus brief in the U.S.