Stopping “gay marryin’” and embracing “securities fraud” are Paxton’s deeply held religious beliefs and so since he believes both are protected in the BuyBull’ and in the Constitution, he is above these charges. So everyone just have a Chick fil A sammich’ and sit down. ~so there!~
Texas: The Inexhaustible Clown Car…er, Truck.
BTW: When does Paxton announce he’s running for POTUS?
Paxton buys hemorrhoid donut —
remember Solomon and the splitting of the baby?
blowhard Texans keep trying to remind everyone that when they were admitted to the Union they were allowed the ‘right’ to secede… what they were really allowed to decide to do was to split Texas into 8 states… maybe we should make them do that… keep the babies and toss the bathwater
the state cashed his check but refused to complete the paperwork
Fraud?
To be fair, this is civil contempt, which rarely ever results in arrests or incarcerations. He does belong in jail though. That securities crap is ridiculous.
Which they did, arguably. They took his check, cashed it, and then refused to perform the service he bought with the check. If that is not stealing…
Shouldn’t the state bar association be looking into disbarring him as well?
didn’t they put it in their “we don’t know what to do with it but we will do something at some time” file?
Perry, Paxton and Abbott in prison! Ahhh…what a wonderful thought. They would be looking forward to those conjugal visits from the wiffies’… Par-taaaaaaaaa’ time! Texas style!
It is obvious that they should amend the death certificate because it is the right thing to do. It is also almost certainly the correct legal result, but this story doesn’t actually give us enough information to know that. I had to do some digging elsewhere to figure out what was going on here.
The reason Paxton is wrong on the law is because these guys were legally married in another state (New Mexico) and so the issue is just a matter of Texas recognizing that marriage on a death certificate. Calling this a retroactivity issue is a frivolous argument, maybe even contempt-worthy.
That said, it is not quite right that constitutional rights are automatically “retroactive” or vest once the Supreme Court issues a decision. From the looks of the TPM story, it appeared that these guys tried to get married in Texas, were denied that right, and are now looking to amend a death certificate without ever having obtained a marriage certificate. If those had been the facts, then I think Paxton would have been right on the law (though wrong morally), since Supreme Court decisions don’t solemnize marriages – that’s not how U.S. law works.
So to make a long story short, TPM should have given more background info. for us to know exactly how big an asshole Paxton was.
Rights are not retroactive or not - they just are. This jackass has no business being the state’s AG.
You guys wouldn’t believe the BS comments from conservative Texans I’m seeing on my FB page supporting this clown today. “He’s defending the TEXAS constitution that people voted for!!”
Fuck it. Just secede already. After I flee the state, of course. I’ve had it.
His asshattery is self evident. No background needed.
The babies have been pissing in the bathwater, so why would we want it again?
I’m still surprised how it’s a state law that public school children are to be subjected to daily indoctrination in the pledge of allegiance “To the United States of America and to the Republic For Which It Stands.” Seriously? Who the fuck wrote that law? Has that person not heard from the secessionists?
Texas politics, pretty much.
You only need one marriage certificate. From any state. Period.
Paxton ------Contempest in the teaPotty.
Don’t just order him to appear in court, put his ass in jail for a few weeks while his criminal actions come up behind all the other criminals who wait in jail for their day in court, first - in, first - out. Let him languish in jail waiting for his day in court, behind all the black and Latino people waiting in jail for their day in court for a minor traffic violation.
You want Texas to have 16 Senators and 14 more electoral votes?
Fuck that noise.
I think they only disbar attorneys if they get caught stealing from their clients, but leave the client enough money to hire an even more expensive attorney to go after the first one.
FIFY with even more duct tape.