Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) will face an ethics lawsuit by a committee of the State Bar over pleadings he made in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Judge Casey Blair of the 471st Collin County District Court on Monday rejected Paxton’s request to dismiss the case on jurisdictional grounds, saying there was an unspecificed disputed material fact.
The Texas State Bar’s Commission for Lawyer Discipline filed a complaint against him in May 2022. The petition cites four filings Paxton made in December 2020, February 2021, March 2021, and July 2021 to the US Supreme Court seeking injunctions ...
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