Paxton Likely Entitled to Liberal Prosecutor Files, Court Hints

A rule in Texas requiring prosecutors in large counties to produce information on the types of offenses they prioritize could be weaponized by Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to remove them from office, the chief justice on a statewide appeals court warned Wednesday.

Still, Paxton is likely entitled to the files under broad authority permitting him to any prosecutorial information he wants, Chief Justice Scott Brister indicated during oral arguments.

“The harm could come if the attorney general starts kicking people out of office that are locally elected,” Brister of the Court of Appeals, Fifteenth District, told a lawyer in ...