Ken Paxton has filed Texas's 27th lawsuit against a Biden policy (re: abortion-inducing drugs.)

[In It to Win It]

Steve Vladeck
@steve_vladeck

Ken Paxton has filed Texas's 27th lawsuit against a Biden policy—this one challenging HHS guidance to Medicare/Medicaid-receiving pharmacies re: abortion-inducing drugs.

By filing suit in Midland, there's a *100%* chance it will be assigned to Trump-appointed Judge David Counts.

Here's the complaint in the fifth different recent suit captioned "Texas v. Becerra":

https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Filed%20Complaint.pdf

Although this is the 18th of Texas's 27 suits that Paxton has filed in a single-judge division, it's the first time that he's singled-out Judge Counts, specifically.

Link to tweet

[Initech]

1. For a party that claims to hate trial lawyers, they sure do love them some trial lawyers.

[grumpyduck]

2. So hat's the score?

Has he won any?

Doesn't he have anything else to do?

[In It to Win It]

3. He gets political wins.

He gets some batshit crazy right wing judge to grant nationwide injunctions against Joe Biden's policies. Republicans get a few news cycle for it and he gets to slow down Biden policies.