Paxton Blocked in Texas from Investigating Transgender Group

March 25, 2024, 5:19 PM UTC

A Texas judge on Monday continued to block an investigation from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) into a nonprofit’s work helping families with transgender children.

PFLAG Inc. would suffer immediate and irreparable harm if it had to give Paxton’s lawyers potentially sensitive information about its members, state District Judge Amy Clark Meachum said from her bench in Austin. Meachum, in issuing a temporary injunction, said PFLAG is likely to prevail at trial.

Meachum set a trial date for June 10.

The injunction carries more legal significance in disrupting Paxton’s probe than a restraining order a judge issued earlier this ...

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