Paxton’s Top Assistant Avoids Discipline for 2020 Election Suit

The top aide to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), and potentially Paxton himself, won’t be sanctioned by the state bar for making alleged false statements in a lawsuit to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

By a 7-2 vote, the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the bar’s disciplinary arm can’t second-guess the legal arguments from first assistant Brent Webster in the case.

“The commission has intruded into terrain that this court’s precedent has described as belonging to the attorney general,” Justice Evan Young wrote in the majority opinion.

In reversing a lower appeals court ...