Paxton Whistleblowers Can Depose Former Boss, New Judge Says

Nov. 14, 2023, 10:02 PM UTC

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton must sit for a deposition and turn over records in a wrongful termination lawsuit after his long shot attempt to transfer the case to a conservative court came up short.

A Republican judge Tuesday denied Paxton’s request to stop discovery in a lawsuit against the attorney general’s office from former aides who say they were let go for making a criminal complaint against Paxton to the FBI in 2020.

The decision from state district Judge Evan Stubbs, coming at the end of a hearing Tuesday, allows the case to continue in Travis County, with depositions ...

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