Ken Paxton is dirty? NO FUCKING WAY!

[Updawg 2266]

Cheaper to replace him …
 

Republicans don’t give a shit about tax dollars anymore

[tx 3 putt 76926]

[TwiceHorn 31456]

7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Why would anyone tell Trump the truth, he don't give a shit.

[elfenix 34236]

3 hours ago, Updawg said:

Republicans never gave a shit about tax dollars

ftfy

[cactusflinthead 27598]

Could go in the Ukraine War thread, but this will work.

 

[tx 3 putt 76926]

😂😂

[TexasEd 8066]

On 2/1/2024 at 6:22 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I have to guess that there are more than a few attorneys who are passing on top dollar advice to the whistleblowers’ attorney. Outside of Ted Cruz, does anyone have more hatred towards them than Paxton?

Right, Biggest shitheels in Texas starts with 1. Cruz the bad luck charm (Glad he likes the Astros and not the Rangers) and number 2 is Paxton.

[C-Man 27221]

19 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

Right, Biggest shitheels in Texas starts with 1. Cruz the bad luck charm (Glad he likes the Astros and not the Rangers) and number 2 is Paxton.

The field has TONS of parity -- lots of folks can be (and have been) #1 on a week-by-week basis. The Texas GOP Shit-Heel national champ is going to have something like 4-5 losses at season's end. It's like the SEC of Shit-Heel leagues.

[tx 3 putt 76926]

 

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Gee, I can’t imagine who in Juarez would direct him to do that?  What an utterly baffling mystery.  

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Paxton and Abbott are doing everything they can to make this state as shitty as they can.  I don’t care that they are dancing like puppets, it’d be nice to have somebody who has some guts and isn’t scared of their own shadow.

[HenryJames 66048]

6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I don’t care that they are dancing like puppets

Is there another way that Abbott can dance?

[South Austin 52484]

1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

Is there another way that Abbott can dance?

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2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Is there another way that Abbott can dance?

So you don't wanna go to law school?  Well what do you wanna do?

I WANNA DANCE!

/D&C

[Player 4575]

Is there another way that Abbott can dance?

[Chad Fuck 17673]

14 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Hmm, going after the religion that isn't of the dominant power.  Nothing to see here.  Those Catholics aren't "real" Christians anyhow, are they? 

 

[TwiceHorn 31456]

54 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Hmm, going after the religion that isn't of the dominant power.  Nothing to see here.  Those Catholics aren't "real" Christians anyhow, are they? 

 

Yep all these Christo fascists are soon to turn on one another. 

[Chad Fuck 17673]

28 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yep all these Christo fascists are soon to turn on one another. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

Ah, now Ken Paxton you hooligan, go back to the King James Version and read along with me:

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Paul is talking about the self-sacrificing love for others; the love that supersedes all other gifts.

[That Guy 955]

I thought he was talking about rub and tugs? 

Edited February 21 by That Guy

[Ghost of LL 15531]

3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Hmm, going after the religion that isn't of the dominant power.  Nothing to see here.  Those Catholics aren't "real" Christians anyhow, are they? 

 

There's going to be a real interesting RFRA lawsuit coming out of this.

[Chad Fuck 17673]

1 minute ago, Ghost of LL said:

There's going to be a real interesting RFRA lawsuit coming out of this.

It should definitely be entertaining.  

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https://www.kxan.com/state-of-texas/state-of-texas-ruling-sparks-paxtons-push-to-oust-conservative-judges-on-court-of-criminal-appeals/
 

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not on the March Primary ballot, but he’s been active in the race, campaigning around the state for Republican candidates challenging some House members who voted to impeach him. 

But Paxton is also mounting a different campaign effort that could have a more significant impact. He is backing challengers to three Republican judges who currently serve on the Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court. It comes after those judges ruled the Texas Constitution prevents Paxton from prosecuting voter fraud cases.

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In an interview Wednesday, Paxton called the decision “ludicrous” and urged voters to elect new judges to the court.

“So the voters now have a decision. Do you want voter fraud prosecuted or do you not want it prosecuted?” Paxton said. “If you want the laws that are passed by the legislature followed, we’re going to have to have Gina Parker, Lee Finley, and David Schenck elected statewide to overcome this decision.”

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Sharon Keller is no liberal. After 24 years presiding over Texas’ highest criminal court, she has earned a reputation as a tough-on-crime conservative — a staunch supporter of the death penalty with consistent endorsements from several city police associations. And yet, she and two other conservative judges on the Court of Criminal Appeals are the latest targets of Paxton and his allies in the Trump family.

This shit, along with Greg’s “minimal” $140 million military base, all goes to show that Republicans elect shitty politicians in Texas, and also what happens when you have a bunch of petty people whose careers have peaked and they have nothing else to do but try and settle scores or get attention.

[WhatTheBuck 28777]

SCOTUS should be paying attention. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26449]

Sharon Keller went woke!

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30 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Sharon Keller went woke!

On the one hand, hilarious that long-time Republicans. stalwarts in Texas are being attacked by other Republicans for being librools.

On the other, Keller and others have got to fucking take a stand against this shit once and for all.

[tx 3 putt 76926]

On 2/25/2024 at 6:32 PM, atomheartbevo said:

On the one hand, hilarious that long-time Republicans. stalwarts in Texas are being attacked by other Republicans for being librools.

On the other, Keller and others have got to fucking take a stand against this shit once and for all.

 

 

[tx 3 putt 76926]

 

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https://www.kut.org/texas/2024-02-28/exclusive-ken-paxton-impeachment-records-reveal-fights-over-witness-testimony-and-alleged-bullying
 

Witnesses subpoenaed before Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment triallast year accused him of bullying them during the proceedings and argued they shouldn’t have to answer questions under oath, newly-released records show.

The Texas Newsroom filed a public records request for all documents files with the Court of Impeachment. In response, the Texas Senate released hundreds of pages of previously-unreleased documents that pull back the curtain on the proceedings, revealing behind-the-scenes fights between Paxton’s defense team and the prosecution.

They also show more about who was made to testify under oath — and who wasn’t.

To ensure a full and transparent public record of the historic impeachment trial, the first to take place in Texas in nearly half a century, The Texas Newsroom is publishing the document trove in its entirety. The records are in batches in the order they were received with no redactions or other additional alterations made.

[Cairn Horn88 8262]

22 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Cornyn is also anti-Paxton.

[Jive Turkey 12595]

glad to see that Ken is focused on the big issues impacting the daily lives of fellow Texans.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued two high-profile Dallas music venues as well as the State Fair of Texas.

The lawsuits were filed against The Factory and Texas Trust CU Theatre and allege that off-duty police officers were not allowed to enter with firearms. All three were filed on February 23 in Dallas County district court, and reference a 2017 law that allows officers to bring weapons into public venues, whether they're on duty or not.

According to the law, armed, licensed peace officers are allowed to enter restaurants, bars, retail establishments, sports, and entertainment venues ”regardless of whether the peace officer is engaged in the actual discharge of the officer’s duties while carrying the weapon.”

https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/city-life/ken-paxton-state-fair-lawsuit/

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Okay, let's all be honest...this particular political forum can get hyperbolic, overly-sensitive, extra critical, and goofy as fuck even on its best days with smart folks.  But you have got to objectively admit...he's wading into some bizarre fucking waters lately.  On the assault against judges he's worked with for decades, inane lawsuits, fighting with Senators, taking on weird cases, attacking former associate DA's.  I realize he's in survival mode, but this is beyond the pale even for him.  When Reitz left his office to work for Ted Cruz because was, and I quote, "Worried about Paxton's moral compass and Ted's office seems like a better fit", I should have known.  Somebody south of here is putting the squeeze on Paxton and he's acting out in defense.  When your choices are federal prison or the cartels, I would imagine one would start doing odd shit toot-sweet.  

[HenryJames 66048]

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/03/01/texas-abortion-republican-judge-tosses-attorney-general-paxton-lawsuit-yelp-crisis-pregnancy-centers/72807447007/

Spoiler

A Bastrop County state District Court on Friday shot down Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit against Yelp for labeling "crisis pregnancy centers," which often counsel women against having abortions, with disclaimers stating that they "typically provide limited medical services" and do not provide abortions.

After the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled federal abortion protections established in Roe v. Wade, Yelp posted disclaimers on its site to alert potential customers that the centers "may not have licensed medical professionals onsite." In February 2023, Yelp updated the notices to state that the so-called crisis pregnancy centers do not provide abortion services.

The attorney general's office sued Yelp on Sept. 28 for supposedly violating Texas' Deceptive Trade Practices Act, arguingthat the notices were "misleading and often untrue because pregnancy resource centers frequently do provide medical services with licensed medical professionals onsite," though that information does not directly contradict the language of the notices.

Republican Judge Reva Towslee-Corbett dismissed all claims against Yelp "with prejudice," which means that the court's decision was based on the merits of the case and that Paxton cannot file the same lawsuit in the 355th District Court again. Towslee-Corbett also granted Yelp's objection, thereby agreeing that the state of Texas did not have the jurisdiction to bring its claims.

“We are pleased with the court’s decision, which rightfully recognizes the case should never have been filed in Texas,” Haynes Boone media law attorney Laura Prather, who represented Yelp, said. "We are dedicated to protecting our clients' right to free speech."

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In his complaint, Paxton had asked the judge to block Yelp from posting the disclaimers and sought monetary damages of $1 million or more from the tech behemoth.

"Yelp cannot mislead and deceive the public simply because the company disagrees with our state’s laws,” Paxton wrote in a Feb. 14 press release.

Texas bans all abortions except in cases where the pregnant person's life is at risk.

In an emailed statement, Yelp stood by its decision to label the pregnancy centers and called the lawsuit meritless.

The company noted that Paxton had referred to labels stating the centers do not provide abortions as "accurate" and that the lawsuit filed by his office is a concerning attempt to subvert First Amendment rights.

Paxton's office did not immediately respond to the American-Statesman's request for comment.

So-called "crisis pregnancy centers” or "pregnancy resource centers" have become a focus in the renewed debate about abortion rights. The goal of these facilities is typically to dissuade women from having abortions, though supporters say they provide necessary care and counseling.

Before Roe was overturned, there were about 800 abortion clinics in the U.S. in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization focused on reproductive rights. Researchers put the number of crisis pregnancy centers at anywhere from 2,500 to 4,000.

Paxton's office had announced it won a "major victory" in the case on Feb. 5, after a California court dismissed a lawsuit that Yelp filed to have Paxton's case preliminarily blocked. But the court's decision also said "Yelp’s allegations of bad faith" on the part of the attorney general "tell a persuasive story."

Paxton has used the law cited in his claims against Yelp, the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, to go after out-of-state organizations over other hot-button medical issues, including gender-affirming care.

In November, he invoked the law to demand that hospitals in Georgia and Washington provide him with the medical records of minor Texas residents who may have received gender-affirming care there, arguing that the hospitals misled children and their parents about treatments like hormone therapy in advertisements. Seattle Children's Hospital asked a court to block the requests in December, and an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, PFLAG, filed a lawsuit Wednesday evening over the demands, which it called "outrageous and unconstitutional."

The attorney general could choose to send the Yelp lawsuit to the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin, but its six Democratic judges would be unlikely to rule in his favor.

 

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[Pato del Muerto 52490]

Does this wonky-eyed ghoul ever do anything to help the state of Texas?

you can’t post online that a place that doesn’t offer abortions in a state where abortions are all but illegal…doesn’t provide abortion services?   That gets you sued for deceptive advertising?

 

and encouraging an audience to exercise their right to vote is electioneering?  

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I’ve heard that Paxton has a lot more lawsuits planned against various localities/school districts/groups/etc. and based on just the past few weeks, he certainly seems to be ratcheting up the lawsuit machine.

I know most will disagree with me, but I think Paxton and Abbott are finally starting to get out over their skis a bit.  The candidates that they are using to try and primary other Republicans aren’t doing well (and even being exposed as carpet baggers in some cases). They are going to war against Republicans who have been elected numerous times from their local communities, and who are clearly not RINOs.  Paxton keeps getting dunked on by Cornyn, and is threatening to run against Cornyn if Cornyn sticks around, and threatening to try and derail Cornyn’s attempt at heading up the GOP in the Senate.  Paxton is trying to go to war against any and every community and local organization (government or otherwise) that he thinks is not backing him.

It’s getting hard for rural Republicans (and suburban) to ignore this stuff, especially if Paxton starts throwing more lawsuits around, and if Abbott keeps saying he’s going to force these areas to bend to his will on vouchers when they don’t benefit from them.

[Dnaguy 11948]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’ve heard that Paxton has a lot more lawsuits planned against various localities/school districts/groups/etc. and based on just the past few weeks, he certainly seems to be ratcheting up the lawsuit machine.

I know most will disagree with me, but I think Paxton and Abbott are finally starting to get out over their skis a bit.  The candidates that they are using to try and primary other Republicans aren’t doing well (and even being exposed as carpet baggers in some cases). They are going to war against Republicans who have been elected numerous times from their local communities, and who are clearly not RINOs.  Paxton keeps getting dunked on by Cornyn, and is threatening to run against Cornyn if Cornyn sticks around, and threatening to try and derail Cornyn’s attempt at heading up the GOP in the Senate.  Paxton is trying to go to war against any and every community and local organization (government or otherwise) that he thinks is not backing him.

It’s getting hard for rural Republicans (and suburban) to ignore this stuff, especially if Paxton starts throwing more lawsuits around, and if Abbott keeps saying he’s going to force these areas to bend to his will on vouchers when they don’t benefit from them.

I’ll believe it when I see one of these shitbags lose.

With a seemingly endless supply of money from wack a doo religious zealot billionaires, there seems to be no limit to the destruction these guys can do with an electorate that will thank them for it

Edited March 2 by Dnaguy

[blacklab 11928]

When I saw Aledo was getting sued I thought for sure it was going to be for recruiting football players.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13511]

Paxton must have some horrible humans working for him. It’s perfectly fine for a lawyer to be conservative but I imagine 99% of those lawyers don’t want to be involved in suing school districts and catholic charities. He must really be finding the bottom 1% that just can’t find a job anywhere else.

[Jive Turkey 12595]

7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’ve heard that Paxton has a lot more lawsuits planned against various localities/school districts/groups/etc. and based on just the past few weeks, he certainly seems to be ratcheting up the lawsuit machine.

Add Huffman ISD to Aledo. This does seem dangerous.  Starting to bite that hands that feed him.

 

[South Austin 52484]

13 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Paxton must have some horrible humans working for him. It’s perfectly fine for a lawyer to be conservative but I imagine 99% of those lawyers don’t want to be involved in suing school districts and catholic charities. He must really be finding the bottom 1% that just can’t find a job anywhere else.

Did you watch any of the former Assistant Attorney General testimony at the Paxton impeachment trial? There’s a line of ultra-right wing fundamentalist assbags who would gladly take a job at that office.

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1 hour ago, Jive Turkey said:

Add Huffman ISD to Aledo. This does seem dangerous.  Starting to bite that hands that feed him.

Yeah these are not liberal areas he’s suing.  Aledo is a FW suburb and Huffman had a lot of aggy.  

He seems scared that they are telling people to vote.  

[Cap33 384]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Did you watch any of the former Assistant Attorney General testimony at the Paxton impeachment trial? There’s a line of ultra-right wing fundamentalist assbags who would gladly take a job at that office.

This. He's found a group of lawyers as cynical and power hungry as he is, and they are going on a rampage. They've got their greatest hits list of issues -- abortion, elections, immigration, etc. -- and they're going to sue anyone and anywhere that will get them in the news as the true defenders of whatever the fuck they think the MAGA crowd is up in arms about. We know (and he knows) that the actual facts don't matter as long as he gets to flex on some Facebook "news" outlet.

Fuck him. Fuck these lawyers signing on to these lawsuits. And fuck the people giving this dickhead felon a pass for all of this bullshit. 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13584]

MAGA-

It's not a matter of if you're going to get thrown under the bus, it's just a matter of when

[South Austin 52484]

37 minutes ago, Cap33 said:

This. He's found a group of lawyers as cynical and power hungry as he is, and they are going on a rampage. They've got their greatest hits list of issues -- abortion, elections, immigration, etc. -- and they're going to sue anyone and anywhere that will get them in the news as the true defenders of whatever the fuck they think the MAGA crowd is up in arms about. We know (and he knows) that the actual facts don't matter as long as he gets to flex on some Facebook "news" outlet.

Fuck him. Fuck these lawyers signing on to these lawsuits. And fuck the people giving this dickhead felon a pass for all of this bullshit. 

Yep. The only reason those whistleblowers left/got fired is because they started sounding alarms to save their own asses when it looked like Paxton’s bullshit might get them in legal trouble. But for that, each of those MAGA fucksticks would be in the signature blocks in all of these fucking lawsuits.

[hornmpa96 2618]

2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yeah these are not liberal areas he’s suing.  Aledo is a FW suburb and Huffman had a lot of aggy.  

He seems scared that they are telling people to vote.  

Of course he’s terrified of people voting. His whole career and all of his cronies is based on winning extremely low turnout R primaries in gerrymandered non-competitive districts. He and his preferred candidates generally only win with the crazies constituting a majority of the electorate.

[That Guy 955]

2 hours ago, South Austin said:

Yep. The only reason those whistleblowers left/got fired is because they started sounding alarms to save their own asses when it looked like Paxton’s bullshit might get them in legal trouble. 

That’s a pretty bad take. 

[South Austin 52484]

1 hour ago, That Guy said:

That’s a pretty bad take. 

Tell us the pretty good take.

[That Guy 955]

How about you ask your ex about the whistleblowers’ testimony during the impeachment trial.