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Here's a hint - if you vote for someone, you support them.  Whether it's Paxton, Abbott, Trump, Cruz, your vote says you support their actions.

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Ah, yes. The “I don’t like this guy, but voting for a a literal criminal into a position of power is better than voting for someone who fights for civil liberties. Because fuck democrats and people wh

BevoAbyss
BevoAbyss

Lulz. With all due respect, what this really means in 2023 GQP Texas is: "I lean hard fascist, but I've never been a fan of fascist Paxton. Of course, I am a fan of many other fascists and voted

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I can’t recall if I posted this chilling thought earlier or not. Given Paxton’s alleged ties to cartel money, did Abbott’s and Patrick’s sudden reversal on calling for Paxton to resign happen due to serious threats indirectly from the cartels? Do the cartel’s have deeper influence than people realize? Yes I started watching The Wire. 

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5 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


And his quixotic legal self aggrandizement tour will continue on our dime

It's not just that it continues on your dime....it's that it takes AG resources away from doing the jobs they are ACTUALLY tasked with doing (we count on the AG to do a whole lot of bread-and-butter stuff that helps our systems and society function), AND the radicalized agenda being the only thing that matters down there has the effect of running off some really good legal talent.  The AG's office has long had some long-term lawyers who are good at what they do, and do their job because they believe in serving the public good.  Those types....don't want to stick around and work under the Paxton regime, suing anyone and everyone for whatever quixotic whim he has.  So, the AG's office is stretched thin, and losing talent.  Not great for Texas.  

But "what's good for Texas" is, literally, the farthest thing from the mind of our state leadership.

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Won’t this just get appealed until it reaches a level of appointee judges that give in? 

It goes to the new 15th Court of Appeals, instead of the local court of appeals, because "the state is a party to the case."

Read up on that recently created travesty made up solely of Abbott appointees, and realize that we live in a full-on banana republic.

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16 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

It's not just that it continues on your dime....it's that it takes AG resources away from doing the jobs they are ACTUALLY tasked with doing (we count on the AG to do a whole lot of bread-and-butter stuff that helps our systems and society function), AND the radicalized agenda being the only thing that matters down there has the effect of running off some really good legal talent.  The AG's office has long had some long-term lawyers who are good at what they do, and do their job because they believe in serving the public good.  Those types....don't want to stick around and work under the Paxton regime, suing anyone and everyone for whatever quixotic whim he has.  So, the AG's office is stretched thin, and losing talent.  Not great for Texas.  

But "what's good for Texas" is, literally, the farthest thing from the mind of our state leadership.

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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

It goes to the new 15th Court of Appeals, instead of the local court of appeals, because "the state is a party to the case."

Read up on that recently created travesty made up solely of Abbott appointees, and realize that we live in a full-on banana republic.

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On 9/19/2024 at 2:12 PM, Brisketexan said:

It goes to the new 15th Court of Appeals, instead of the local court of appeals, because "the state is a party to the case."

Read up on that recently created travesty made up solely of Abbott appointees, and realize that we live in a full-on banana republic.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/11/texas-appeals-court-15th-abbott-appointees/

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9 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/11/texas-appeals-court-15th-abbott-appointees/

Scott Brister is a pompous socially awkward piece of shit.

Scott Field is a really nice guy who unfortunately decided to brand an “R” on his forehead.

This 15th court of appeals is a bullshit puppet court, and if the Dems can ever flip the legislature, abolishing this court should be a top priority.

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Scott Brister is a pompous socially awkward piece of shit.

Scott Field is a really nice guy who unfortunately decided to brand an “R” on his forehead.

This 15th court of appeals is a bullshit puppet court, and if the Dems can ever flip the legislature, abolishing this court should be a top priority.

I was surprised to see that 26 states have some kind of "business court."  Possibly not an horrible idea in and of itself.  But, politics aside, creating a special-jurisdiction court for business and governmental matters seems like bad idea jeans, as the two subjects generally have little to do with one another.

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It goes to the new 15th Court of Appeals, instead of the local court of appeals, because "the state is a party to the case."

Read up on that recently created travesty made up solely of Abbott appointees, and realize that we live in a full-on banana republic.

 

closer and closer to iran every year 

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Paxton lost. Judge just ruled on it. But he’ll appeal.
 

Talk to me like a five year old. If the State Fair’s ban on firearms is reversed, does this mean that to get into the Cotton Bowl, they’ll need to screen for weapons at the stadium entrance? Because that dog wont hunt. They can barely scan the tickets without it turning into a Who concert.
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More noise around this corrupt asshole
 
https://www.texasobserver.org/paxtons-lobbyist-ceo-alleged-fraud/
 
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Wow. Had never heard about that but it’s not surprising

That frinzi guy was also a part of this scandal.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/24/ex-lobbyist-gives-new-details-in-21ct-scandal-says-he-was-told-to-lie/10114834007/
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Wow. Had never heard about that but it’s not surprising

That frinzi guy was also a part of this scandal.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/24/ex-lobbyist-gives-new-details-in-21ct-scandal-says-he-was-told-to-lie/10114834007/

The party is all grift, all corruption, using hot-button social issues as old fashioned con man sleight of hand to distract the majority of Texas voters from the assfucking we’re all getting.
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6 hours ago, Updawg said:


Wow. Had never heard about that but it’s not surprising

That frinzi guy was also a part of this scandal.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/24/ex-lobbyist-gives-new-details-in-21ct-scandal-says-he-was-told-to-lie/10114834007/

Yes, we all love how that literal fuck Stick is still free and thriving in acnew jobbwithout enough repercussions for his blatant corruption.

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"Spiritual Maturity" in lawyers?  Who the fuck wordsmith'd that?  All the best attorneys I know at least have the decency to admit they are flawed people but will kick ass for your Section 13 filing.  

Online, Christian-based law school to nurture Spiritual Maturity?  Is this like opposite timeline of 'Better Call Saul'?  And Ms. French decided the best way to demonstrate this "Christian Perspective to the Law" was to work for a philandering, money-laundering, walking ethics violation?  I mean at least his impeachment defense team had the transparency to sound and look like total douchebags.  But you Ms. French?  I'm curious which course at Regent University inspired you to apply such 'Christian Legal Thought' to such a piece of shit?  Oh, because he makes abortions harder to get?  Spoiler alert, Ms. French.  

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3 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

The thing is, how can the state Supreme Court rule against him even if it were inclined to based on the law, now that they know he can and will just primary any of them next go-round -- as he did to the Ct. of Criminal Appeals judges who ruled against him??

Chuck here gets it.

It's one of the reasons I've been telling y'all that Ken Paxton is the most powerful Texas politician in the last 50-75 years.

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Jesus, this was an epic bitchslap to Paxton from the (normally friendly) SCOTX: https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1459231/240813c.pdf

The opinion opens with this absolute banger:

Remarkably, the State’s presentation to this Court takes no
position on whether the State Fair of Texas, a private entity, has the
legal authority to exclude patrons carrying handguns from the Fair.
This may surprise many observers, given that the ostensible purpose of
this litigation is to determine whether Texas law entitles law-abiding
Texans to carry handguns at the State Fair despite the Fair’s recently
enacted policy to the contrary. That is a very important question. It is
a question on which both law-abiding handgun owners and the operators
of the State Fair deserve a clear answer. It is a question to which further
litigation may provide a clearer answer. But it is not a question
answered—or even addressed—by the State’s emergency filings in this
Court. This Court cannot possibly order the State Fair to allow
handguns to be carried at this year’s Fair when the party seeking that
relief does not even argue that Texas law obligates the Fair to do so.

Then, they follow it up with this:

The State Fair of Texas is a private entity that operates the Fair
on public land leased from the City of Dallas. Whether Texans have a
legal right to carry handguns at a mass public event of this nature is not
a question that should ever be in doubt. Law-abiding handgun owners
in Texas know that there are certain places where they may not carry
their weapon. They need to know—with maximum clarity—whether the
State Fair is one of those places. Yet the State’s filings do not even
attempt to answer that question. Instead of arguing that the State Fair
lacks the authority to prohibit guns at the Fair, the State instead argues
that the City of Dallas may not promote or enforce the State Fair’s
prohibition on guns. Assume the State is correct. Assume that section
411.209(a) of the Government Code prohibits the City of Dallas from
assisting in the enforcement of, or associating itself in any way with, the
State Fair’s gun policy. Even if that is true—and it may well be—this
would not mean that handgun owners are entitled by law to carry their
weapons at the State Fair despite the State Fair’s contrary policy. On
that pivotal question, the State’s filings are conspicuously silent.1

And then this footnote (and if you ever practice appellate law, you know that the footnotes are usually where the sickest burns live) was slid in there:

1 The State contends that the Fair’s gun policy would be unenforceable
if the City’s police department is prohibited from enforcing it. That is obviously
wrong. The Fair intends to hire private security, and the Dallas County
District Attorney is not a party to this case. Perhaps the worst possible
outcome from all of this would be a court order that sides with the State but
actually only enjoins the City of Dallas and its police department based on
section 411.209, which is the kind of order for which much of the State’s
briefing seems to advocate. That order would leave the State Fair’s gun policy
in place—and expose those who violate it to potential liability at the hands of
local government officials who do not work for the City—while giving the

law-abiding, gun-carrying public the misimpression that the courts have
green-lighted their carriage of handguns at the Fair. To the extent the State
advocates for such an ill-conceived half-measure, it does so unadvisedly.

Next, the Opinion points out that Paxton has had an AG opinion since 2016 that contradicted his argument in this case:

An Attorney General Opinion issued in 2016 was not so silent. It
concluded that private parties leasing government-owned facilities
cannot make carriage of handguns on their leased property a crime by
posting the familiar signage described by sections 30.06 and 30.07 of the
Penal Code. Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. KP-0108, at 3 (2016). The AG Opinion
went on, however, to address a key question that is entirely unaddressed
by the State’s filings—whether private parties leasing government
property can exclude carriers of handguns by invoking the traditional
authority of a tenant to control entry to the property and to exclude
non-compliant visitors as trespassers. The Opinion concluded that a
private party in such a position likely could prohibit guns in this way
under Texas law. Id. at 3 n.2.


AG Opinion KP-0108 was recently withdrawn pending
consideration of a related opinion request, RQ-0558-KP. But
withdrawing the Opinion is not the same thing as repudiating its
analysis or explaining why it was wrong, which the State has not
attempted to do in this Court. If the AG Opinion was correct about the
common-law authority of private parties who lease public property, then
the privately operated State Fair may well have the authority to exclude
handguns from the Fair, and this is the case even if the State is
completely right about the City of Dallas’s obligations under section
411.209. If the AG Opinion was wrong, then surely the party seeking a
result at odds with its own publicly stated opinion must at least explain
why its opinion was wrong.

Finally, after going over some other issues with the shitty reasoning and lack of support in the motion for emergency relief that the State filed, the Opinion closes with this:

It should go without saying—though
perhaps it cannot be said often enough—that a judge’s role in this case
is not to decide whether the State Fair made a wise decision. Our job,
instead, is to decide whether Texas law allowed the State Fair to make
the decision for itself. The State declines to take a position on that
essential question but nevertheless asks this Court for an injunction
overriding the State Fair’s decision. It should also go without saying
that our answer, for now, must be no.

All of the italics in my quotes are from the Court itself, not from me. Here's some inside baseball: Courts italicize in the opinions to emphasize ridiculous takes by the appellant or appellee. In this case, the Court's Opinion is emphasizing just how shitty and devoid of reasoning the State's motion was. 

If I ever received an opinion in a case I was involved with, I'd probably voluntarily resign my law license. It's that bad. Paxton, on the other hand, just released a statement that said, essentially "The Supreme Court is wrong."

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The thing is, how can the state Supreme Court rule against him even if it were inclined to based on the law, now that they know he can and will just primary any of them next go-round -- as he did to the Ct. of Criminal Appeals judges who ruled against him??

Turns out they did. See my post above. It was surprisingly blunt. 

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Came here to post excerpts from the opinion -- wow. Blacklock, Young, and (less surprisingly) Hecht put their names on that. Bitch slap, indeed.

Probably too much to ask that they make Ken sit for deposition in the whistleblower case. 

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as a citizen of the state of texas watching ken paxton continually and routinely embarrass himself, his office, and the entire state of texas by not just being an irredeemable piece of absolute shit, but by getting his ass kicked in court every. fucking. time. because he genuinely suck at it so bad (thank god).

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1 hour ago, sidis said:

as a citizen of the state of texas watching ken paxton continually and routinely embarrass himself, his office, and the entire state of texas by not just being an irredeemable piece of absolute shit, but by getting his ass kicked in court every. fucking. time. because he genuinely suck at it so bad (thank god).

I couldn't even tell you who was the AG under George W Bush or Rick Perry.

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7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Greg Abbott (with a dash of Cornyn).  😬😬 

And don't forget the guy who came before them: Dan Morales.  A crook who we fucking threw in prison.

But we only do that to Democrats.  Republicans are completely and totally above/apart from the law.

This fucking state.

When the Dems were in power and were crooks, at least they had the decency to get subjected to prosecution.  The GQP won't allow even that.  They are not subject to the rule of law.  Again, for emphasis, the people of Texas REPEATEDLY vote for a party that has told us plainly that it does not and will not be subject to the same laws the rest of us have to follow.

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Greg Abbott (with a dash of Cornyn).  😬😬 

Oh how I long for the days when Abbott wasn't trying to get some Yankee Democrat from New York City to notice him or trying to allow some TikTok billionaire from Pennsylvania dictate how Texas runs its schools.

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On 9/27/2024 at 12:17 PM, hornian said:

Jesus, this was an epic bitchslap to Paxton from the (normally friendly) SCOTX: https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1459231/240813c.pdf

The opinion opens with this absolute banger:

Remarkably, the State’s presentation to this Court takes no
position on whether the State Fair of Texas, a private entity, has the
legal authority to exclude patrons carrying handguns from the Fair.
This may surprise many observers, given that the ostensible purpose of
this litigation is to determine whether Texas law entitles law-abiding
Texans to carry handguns at the State Fair despite the Fair’s recently
enacted policy to the contrary. That is a very important question. It is
a question on which both law-abiding handgun owners and the operators
of the State Fair deserve a clear answer. It is a question to which further
litigation may provide a clearer answer. But it is not a question
answered—or even addressed—by the State’s emergency filings in this
Court. This Court cannot possibly order the State Fair to allow
handguns to be carried at this year’s Fair when the party seeking that
relief does not even argue that Texas law obligates the Fair to do so.

Then, they follow it up with this:

The State Fair of Texas is a private entity that operates the Fair
on public land leased from the City of Dallas. Whether Texans have a
legal right to carry handguns at a mass public event of this nature is not
a question that should ever be in doubt. Law-abiding handgun owners
in Texas know that there are certain places where they may not carry
their weapon. They need to know—with maximum clarity—whether the
State Fair is one of those places. Yet the State’s filings do not even
attempt to answer that question. Instead of arguing that the State Fair
lacks the authority to prohibit guns at the Fair, the State instead argues
that the City of Dallas may not promote or enforce the State Fair’s
prohibition on guns. Assume the State is correct. Assume that section
411.209(a) of the Government Code prohibits the City of Dallas from
assisting in the enforcement of, or associating itself in any way with, the
State Fair’s gun policy. Even if that is true—and it may well be—this
would not mean that handgun owners are entitled by law to carry their
weapons at the State Fair despite the State Fair’s contrary policy. On
that pivotal question, the State’s filings are conspicuously silent.1

And then this footnote (and if you ever practice appellate law, you know that the footnotes are usually where the sickest burns live) was slid in there:

1 The State contends that the Fair’s gun policy would be unenforceable
if the City’s police department is prohibited from enforcing it. That is obviously
wrong. The Fair intends to hire private security, and the Dallas County
District Attorney is not a party to this case. Perhaps the worst possible
outcome from all of this would be a court order that sides with the State but
actually only enjoins the City of Dallas and its police department based on
section 411.209, which is the kind of order for which much of the State’s
briefing seems to advocate. That order would leave the State Fair’s gun policy
in place—and expose those who violate it to potential liability at the hands of
local government officials who do not work for the City—while giving the

law-abiding, gun-carrying public the misimpression that the courts have
green-lighted their carriage of handguns at the Fair. To the extent the State
advocates for such an ill-conceived half-measure, it does so unadvisedly.

Next, the Opinion points out that Paxton has had an AG opinion since 2016 that contradicted his argument in this case:

An Attorney General Opinion issued in 2016 was not so silent. It
concluded that private parties leasing government-owned facilities
cannot make carriage of handguns on their leased property a crime by
posting the familiar signage described by sections 30.06 and 30.07 of the
Penal Code. Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. KP-0108, at 3 (2016). The AG Opinion
went on, however, to address a key question that is entirely unaddressed
by the State’s filings—whether private parties leasing government
property can exclude carriers of handguns by invoking the traditional
authority of a tenant to control entry to the property and to exclude
non-compliant visitors as trespassers. The Opinion concluded that a
private party in such a position likely could prohibit guns in this way
under Texas law. Id. at 3 n.2.


AG Opinion KP-0108 was recently withdrawn pending
consideration of a related opinion request, RQ-0558-KP. But
withdrawing the Opinion is not the same thing as repudiating its
analysis or explaining why it was wrong, which the State has not
attempted to do in this Court. If the AG Opinion was correct about the
common-law authority of private parties who lease public property, then
the privately operated State Fair may well have the authority to exclude
handguns from the Fair, and this is the case even if the State is
completely right about the City of Dallas’s obligations under section
411.209. If the AG Opinion was wrong, then surely the party seeking a
result at odds with its own publicly stated opinion must at least explain
why its opinion was wrong.

Finally, after going over some other issues with the shitty reasoning and lack of support in the motion for emergency relief that the State filed, the Opinion closes with this:

It should go without saying—though
perhaps it cannot be said often enough—that a judge’s role in this case
is not to decide whether the State Fair made a wise decision. Our job,
instead, is to decide whether Texas law allowed the State Fair to make
the decision for itself. The State declines to take a position on that
essential question but nevertheless asks this Court for an injunction
overriding the State Fair’s decision. It should also go without saying
that our answer, for now, must be no.

All of the italics in my quotes are from the Court itself, not from me. Here's some inside baseball: Courts italicize in the opinions to emphasize ridiculous takes by the appellant or appellee. In this case, the Court's Opinion is emphasizing just how shitty and devoid of reasoning the State's motion was. 

If I ever received an opinion in a case I was involved with, I'd probably voluntarily resign my law license. It's that bad. Paxton, on the other hand, just released a statement that said, essentially "The Supreme Court is wrong."

So many words when a simple “Is you crazy, you one-eyed fuckdumpling?” would suffice. 

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Came here to post excerpts from the opinion -- wow. Blacklock, Young, and (less surprisingly) Hecht put their names on that. Bitch slap, indeed.

Probably too much to ask that they make Ken sit for deposition in the whistleblower case. 

To clarify, the proper legal term is "benchslap."

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So this corrupt shit spends the last 4 years with Trump's thumb up his ass like a puppet and gets passed over for Gaetz?

We should send him a "Sorry you didn't see this coming" condolence card.

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