Paxton Denied Texas Prosecutors’ Files Despite Injunction Appeal

Texas prosecutors from left-leaning counties can continue to withhold confidential case files from Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) while the state appeals an injunction, a divided state appeals court ruled.

Although Paxton’s notice of appeal superseded the lower court injunction, the higher court kept it in place saying it needs time to review issues that are “complex.”

“The parties had several months to consider, object, or defend the rules, but we have not, and we are reluctant to decide who is ‘likely to succeed on the merits’ of a dispute that arrived on this court’s doorstep two weeks ago,” the ...