Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who led the effort to get the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election for ex-President Donald Trump, is refusing to give the media the texts and emails he sent and received on Jan 6., the day he spoke at the D.C. Trump rally that led to the Capitol insurrection, according to the Houston Chronicle.
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” John Steinbeck
Hmm. A Texas Attorney General with overt criminal tendencies.
Lemme guess, Paxton is a Rethugliklan?
Is there any corrupt activity this guy is not involved in? I know, owning the libs, White Supremacy and shit, but couldn’t Texas elect a AG a guy that wasn’t a total crook? They even re-elected him while under indictment on securities fraud charges.
Well sure, but don’t you feel pwned?!?
No reasonable person could believe anything I was saying I was just trying to grift the rubes your honor
This is story was on Rachel last night. It was highlighting the work that Vanita Gupta has done in the past. At the time of this story John Cornyn was the TX AG, he gave an award to the Tulia undercover officer who created this situation.
Or you can watch it here.
And break a decades-old tradition? Where would the US be if you couldn’t count on the Attorney General of Texas being a crook?
claiming that they were confidential attorney-client communications.
Exactly who was the client of the Texas AG?
If this is a government-issued phone, he hasn’t the right to do this. Lock it.
Not to mention, does he really think there aren’t other ways to find these text messages? C’mon, everything can be found. He can make it easy or he can make it hard, but those messages are gonna be found. Period.
And if it was his personal phone, how much TX business has he conducted on his personal phone?
Equally illegal, unless of course it’s Texas law, where really nothing appears to be illegal…
I’ll defer to the Texans and legal eagles amongst us.
I respect the villains in James Bond novels and movies because they take full ownership of their evil deeds and are willing to go down if they fail. By contrast, current GOP pols: from towns and cities to the highest positions in the national government, want power with zero responsibility.
Paxton is so dirty he makes your garden variety corrupt Texas politicians look almost clean by comparison. And he’s going down hard.
If you’ve not watched the segment it truly is eye opening. No surprise that Cornyn is leading the effort to block Vanita Gupta’s appointment to the Justice Department. I’m not sure there is a single principled, kind, or fair elected Republican left in Congress. Cornyn’s behavior is truly petty. He ought to be ashamed of himself and I sincerely hope he suffers blowback from Rachel’s piece last night.
Yes, that was amusing!
I’d settle for knowing who his attorneys were.
Next thing we know he’ll be citing his rights under the Fifth Amendment.
Attorney/client privilege, my ass!!! He wasn’t the former orange asshole’s attorney.
In his book, The Defense Never Rests, notorious defense attorney F. Lee Bailey stated that in Texas, you could get a murder suspect acquitted if you could prove that his victim “deserved killing”. He wrote that the defense only worked in Texas…
I saw that last night on Maddow. Disgusting.
For what it’s worth, Senator Manchen’s opposition to Neera Tanden’s nomination was also personal and based on her criticism of his daughter.
Being indicted once wasn’t enough for Ken Paxton.