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13 minutes ago, wreckatx said:

Considering that the wife of TPPF's Executive Director is Paxton's Chief of Staff, that must be awkward. 

Were you at the TPPF Policy Orientation?  What happened exactly?

I drank a lot.  

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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.

SydneyCarton
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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

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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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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and seven other attorneys general filed a lawsuit Fridayasking a federal judge to halt a Biden administration immigration program that allows some Central American children to legally migrate to the United States and reunite with their parents or legal guardians — including those who have pending asylum claims.

 


fuck this douche !!!

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I know for a fact that the judges and their staff at the Court of Criminal Appeals have been receiving threats, as they consider the motion for rehearing in the case ruling that AG can't unilaterally prosecute "election fraud."  

Wonder if it makes any of these Republicans pause and take stock of life choices....  ha ha 

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4 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

I know for a fact that the judges and their staff at the Court of Criminal Appeals have been receiving threats, as they consider the motion for rehearing in the case ruling that AG can't unilaterally prosecute "election fraud."  

Wonder if it makes any of these Republicans pause and take stock of life choices....  ha ha 


they should re-evaluate their decision to be libs !!!

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3 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Not so much outnumbered as out voted in this dumb ass state.

Out voted, not out numbered 

 

paxton is foaming at the mouth to throw out votes from hou / dfw / Austin. The only districts with fraud will be Dem majority districts 

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I know for a fact that the judges and their staff at the Court of Criminal Appeals have been receiving threats, as they consider the motion for rehearing in the case ruling that AG can't unilaterally prosecute "election fraud."  

Wonder if it makes any of these Republicans pause and take stock of life choices....  ha ha 

I read the opinion.  It's solid.  I not only agree with its outcome, but I think its reasoning is unimpeachable.

The most interesting aspects are twofold, maybe just because I am ignorant of Texas con law:

Separation of powers is explicitly recited in the Texas Constitution, and, as a result, it has been held that Texas courts should be and are more rigorous in enforcing the doctrine than federal courts (in the federal constitution, separation of powers is implied from the structure).

Also, unlike the federal scheme, criminal prosecution is vested in the County and District Attorneys by the Texas Constitution, and they are explicitly deemed part of the judicial branch (whereas federal prosecutors are part of the executive branch).

Under the Texas constitution, the AG is granted only  powers of a civil nature, mainly to "police" corporate charters.  Thus, the lege cannot give the AG criminal prosecution powers of any kind, except when a County or District Attorney requests assistance.  Ironically, the powers of the AG were "stripped" in the 1876 Constitution because "the Klan" thought the AG was a little vigorous in prosecuting them.

To me, at least, a pretty solid example of an apolitical judicial opinion.  I don't think this question was very difficult, though.  Pretty solid lawyering by the petitioner's attorneys to avoid prosecution on actual election law (not voting law) violations.

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Agree, to me the decision was a no-brainer under separation of powers. I will be interested to see the opinions that come out on the motion for rehearing -- there will be side opinions. Anyway, I was really referring to whether the judges ever start to regret being on team R with all the threats etc. coming from their own team. Again, lol.

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Agree, to me the decision was a no-brainer under separation of powers. I will be interested to see the opinions that come out on the motion for rehearing -- there will be side opinions. Anyway, I was really referring to whether the judges ever start to regret being on team R with all the threats etc. coming from their own team. Again, lol.

So far, the judiciary has been mostly immune to Trumpian notions and a solid backstop for the rule of law.

hpslugga says us lawdogs are over-represented in the covid denier ranks.  I can neither confirm nor deny, but there sure are a lot of lawdogs willing to spin tales on behalf of Trumo and his ilk.

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So far, the judiciary has been mostly immune to Trumpian notions and a solid backstop for the rule of law.

hpslugga says us lawdogs are over-represented in the covid denier ranks.  I can neither confirm nor deny, but there sure are a lot of lawdogs willing to spin tales on behalf of Trumo and his ilk.

Can’t speak to the numbers but they’re definitely the loudest.

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Paxton claims he doesn't like that Facebook was using facial recognition on photos that users uploaded to Facebook and he's trying to protect Texans.   Facebook is going to soon delete more than a billion of the recognition templates, and Paxton is like "you better hold your horses, we need that data for this lawsuit!"

Also, Paxton has no problem with license plate scanners used by police in Texas that are uploaded to various databases and can be used to track the movement of Texans.

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/ken-paxton-sues-facebooks-parent-company-over-use-of-facial-recognition-tech/

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., saying the technology conglomerate infringed on the state’s privacy protections by using facial recognition technology on its users without their consent.

Paxton filed the suit, which he said could result in hundreds of billions of dollars in civil penalties, in state court in Harrison County on Monday, the first day of early voting in the March 2022 primary. He announced the suit at a press conference in Marshall, an East Texas town represented by one of his most prominent Republican challengers, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert.

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Paxton said Facebook collected “facial geometries” without consent and sent the information to others for profit.

“Facebook will no longer take advantage of people and their children with the intent to turn a profit at the expense of one’s safety and well-being,” he said. “This is yet another example of Big Tech’s deceitful business practices, and it must stop. I will continue to fight for Texans’ privacy and security.”

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The lawsuit accuses Facebook of violating a 2009 state law that requires people to obtain consent before capturing “a biometric identifier of an individual.” State law imposes a $25,000 penalty for each unlawful capturing of an identifier, Paxton said. The lawsuit also accuses Facebook of deceptive trade practices, which would each incur a $10,000 penalty.

Facebook ended its use of facial recognition last November and said it would delete more than a billion users’ facial templates. The state is asking for Facebook to maintain relevant data for the investigation.

 

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Four former aides who reported Attorney General Ken Paxton to the FBI for alleged bribery are now accusing him of lying about his legal troubles while facing a tough re-election bid.

 

 
"However, in recent weeks, Paxton has made numerous false and misleading public statements that we feel obligated to correct," said the former deputy attorneys general James "Blake" Brickman, J. Mark Penley, and Ryan Vassar and the agency’s former law enforcement director David Maxwell.
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Four former aides who reported Attorney General Ken Paxton to the FBI for alleged bribery are now accusing him of lying about his legal troubles while facing a tough re-election bid.

 

 
"However, in recent weeks, Paxton has made numerous false and misleading public statements that we feel obligated to correct," said the former deputy attorneys general James "Blake" Brickman, J. Mark Penley, and Ryan Vassar and the agency’s former law enforcement director David Maxwell.

In other news, water is wet.

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New Republic: Texas’s Attorney General Is Laying the Groundwork to Separate Trans Kids From Their Families

 

On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced his “formal attorney general opinion” that gender-affirming health care for trans kids is “child abuse,” a chilling pronouncement that landed in the midst of Republican legislators’ multistate fight against LGBTQ rights, overwhelmingly focused on teens and children, and trans kids in particular. Later that day, responding to Dallas Morning News’s coverage of his decision, Paxton suggested gender-affirming health care consisted of “chopping off boys’ and girls’ private parts.” Texas Governor Greg Abbot subsequently tweeted that “the Texas Dept. of Family & Protective Services will enforce this ruling and investigate & refer for prosecution any such abuse.” All this sends a clear message to those in Texas with children in their care, including educators: The state would support it in separating trans children from their supportive parents.

Genital surgery, in almost all cases, is only available to adults. But this basic factual error is only the beginning—if also the foundation—of the problems with Paxton’s stigma-fueling decision.

Categorizing gender-affirming health care, which also includes puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy, as child abuse could have far-reaching implications—even if Paxton’s decision doesn’t hold up in court. Adri Perez, policy and advocacy specialist at the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, told me by text on Tuesday that they were especially concerned about the “mandatory reporting” section, “where Paxton reminds teachers, social workers, and others of their duty to report child abuse.” Even though it is not legally binding, people could point to this section as a reason to report. “The amount of false reports, bullying, and harassment directed towards trans youth, their parents and guardians, and providers of gender-affirming care could go up.”

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I rarely watch cable news but I've had CNN on a fair amount over the weekend for the latest on Ukraine. I stream using the CNN go app on my TV. Feels like every 3rd commercial is Paxton going after Guzman for being a woke liberal that is pushing a CRT agenda.

At first glance, I was wondering why Paxton is spending so much on a "liberal" channel but I guess even conservatives are tuning into CNN for war coverage.

Why is Paxton only attacking Guzman? Does he realize that he probably as limited options to pull voters away from Bush and Gohmert?   (On a potentially related note, my CNN Go app seems to think I'm Hispanic as about 10% of the overall ads are in Spanish for me. I barely passed Spanish in hs and school.)

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How does this guy claim any moral high ground?  There are multiple published stores about how he got his 'mistress' a job with Nate Paul in exchange for political favors.  Ignore the illegal, power abusing and politically corrupt parts of Paxton's story.  Why isn't his whoring / adultery something that gets this sleaze bag run out of the (R) party on a rail?  Why isn't the press asking State Senator Angela Paxton why she hasn't kicked her cheating SOB of a husband out the door?  Oh, because 'family values' was a load of horse shit all along.

I stopped to pump gas on I-10 a few weeks ago and ran into Donna Campbell putting gas in her Porsche SUV (probably carpet bagging her way to her political office in New Braunsfels from her home in Houston).  I wish I asked ol' Donna for an update on her former state senate staffer, Paxton's 'mistress' / cum dumpster.  Today's (R) party has turned the entire state capitol into a fucking Bizarro world perversion.  But, of course, those damn trans kids are Texas' real problem.

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Right, total radio silence on the whole adultery thing, never mind the corruption attendant to it. I think it's just no longer a problem for the right since Trump. Obviously would be a huge issue if a D stepped out on his wife, despite the fact the right still claims the moral high ground. There are no journalists willing to bring up such indelicate issues either. 

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How does this guy claim any moral high ground?  There are multiple published stores about how he got his 'mistress' a job with Nate Paul in exchange for political favors.  Ignore the illegal, power abusing and politically corrupt parts of Paxton's story.  Why isn't his whoring / adultery something that gets this sleaze bag run out of the ® party on a rail?  Why isn't the press asking State Senator Angela Paxton why she hasn't kicked her cheating SOB of a husband out the door?  Oh, because 'family values' was a load of horse shit all along.
I stopped to pump gas on I-10 a few weeks ago and ran into Donna Campbell putting gas in her Porsche SUV (probably carpet bagging her way to her political office in New Braunsfels from her home in Houston).  I wish I asked ol' Donna for an update on her former state senate staffer, Paxton's 'mistress' / cum dumpster.  Today's ® party has turned the entire state capitol into a fucking Bizarro world perversion.  But, of course, those damn trans kids are Texas' real problem.

Whoring and adultery are, like most things, only an issue when a (D) does them
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