Texas Judges Facing Election Draw Paxton’s Ire Over Beto Ruling

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) blasted the three justices on the new statewide appeals court for pausing discovery into claims that Beto O’Rourke took illegal actions in raising money to fund travel for Texas Democrats who fled the state to avoid a vote on a GOP-drawn redistricting map.

In a post on X, Paxton on Wednesday accused Republican Justices Scott Brister, Scott Field, and April Farris of helping O’Rourke “with his unlawful bribery scheme.”

“What we are witnessing in Texas right now is a constitutional crisis being orchestrated by activist judges on the Beto-loving Fifteenth Court of Appeals,” Paxton ...