The State Bar of Texas is investigating whether the state’s attorney general violated professional misconduct rules in his effort to overturn the 2020 election, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
His guns are smoking.
Paxton proves that the wheels of justice “grind exceedingly fine, but turn fucking slowly.”
Dry rot in Texas is a unique strain of that corruption.
Sooooo - lawyers in Texas are trying to pretend that they have some sort of standards?
It’s Texas - I’m confused.
Why is the guy not in jail? He’s been under felony indictment for like 5 years…
Paxton is a shit bag. He is also a criminal facing various charges.
‘He has also been [dogged by ethics questions for much of his public life and spent most of his tenure as attorney general maintaining his innocence in the face of securities fraud charges. Paxton pleaded not guilty to three felony counts in 2015 and narrowly won reelection three years later.’
He has spent more Texas money fighting against federal actions than I want to count.
His spouse is a State Senator.
It just goes on and on . . .
Karma: Oooh, I can be such a bitch.
Objective reality: Hold my beer…
The Texas Bar needs to disbar this criminal SOB. After that, his trial on the various charges facing him should be expedited as quickly as possible.
But, oh yes, this is Texas isn’t it.
OT—but rich.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasts Schumer tactic to show GOP blocking Biden agenda: “Dems have decided to appease their far-left fringe and put forward a partisan agenda that is designed to fail.”
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 9, 2021
I don’t like Mitch McConnell. (huge, damned understatement…)
Truly shocking really. State Bars are fucking useless when it comes to shit like this. Had it been some nobody filing a frivolous suit that pissed a judge off, sure, maybe they’d get a disciplinary warning or even a suspension, but major politicians? Fuck no. I mean, they obviously tried hard to avoid it in the first place. I have to wonder who the fuck is on that tribunal who overturned the knee-jerk initial decision to bless his frivolous politicized lawsuits, because of all states, I certainly wouldn’t have expected it would be TX’s Bar that I was hearing about doing this. Just look at how many other states where it should be happening to these Trump KKKult KKKlowns and yet it isn’t.
He was re-elected while on indictment. Texans would elect the crookedest lawyer that can stay out of jail.
This article is incomplete without mentioning that Paxton was indicted by the SEC for securities fraud back in 2016, and has been dodging the case ever since by hopping from one court jurisdiction to another, including hopping back to the original jurisdiction. Texas sure can pick em: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton#Securities_fraud_indictment
We have a couple regulars here who know the Texas legal scene quite well. Perhaps they can tell us what weight this state bar has, and whether it is likely to do anything or whether it can make a criminal referral.
Hasn’t he hit the Trifecta of legal trouble yet? I would certainly think so.
It has the same weight all state bar associations have. No it isn’t going to make any criminal referrals - it’s not a grand jury. It is about people’s actions as lawyers and whether they have violated ethics rules. They could disbar him, I doubt they do. They could suspend him, or sanction him. I don’t know what they will do.
OT. This was pure genius. Watch the actual ad.
He looks like a fabulous candidate.
Everything is “big” in Texas, even the assholes! There are many.
I think it varies from state to state, which is why I ask. For instance the NY bar association is pretty meaningless, just a dues collecting organisation. Any investigations re disbarment are conducted by one of the state courts.
They could disbar him, I doubt they do. They could suspend him, or sanction him. I don’t know what they will do.
In other words, Paxton’s starting to smell a little (it’s been only six years) and the TX bar association feels like they should look like they’re doing something.