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TexasTowelie

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Mon Jul 25, 2022, 02:55 PM Jul 2022

Texas AG Ken Paxton bans staff lawyers from speaking at state bar events, escalating feud sparked by

Texas AG Ken Paxton bans staff lawyers from speaking at state bar events, escalating feud sparked by 2020 election

by Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune



Attorney General Ken Paxton is escalating his feud with the State Bar of Texas by banning his office’s lawyers from speaking at any events organized by the bar.

Paxton’s office also will not pay for any attorneys to attend bar-sponsored events, according to an internal email obtained by The Texas Tribune.

The state bar is suing Paxton over his 2020 lawsuit challenging the presidential election results in four battleground states. Paxton has denounced the lawsuit, which alleges professional misconduct, as political harassment.

The internal email — sent Monday by Shawn Cowles, Paxton’s deputy attorney general for civil litigation — references the lawsuit, calling it “just the latest instance in the Bar’s ongoing evolution into a partisan advocacy group.”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/25/ken-paxton-texas-bar/
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Texas AG Ken Paxton bans staff lawyers from speaking at state bar events, escalating feud sparked by (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2022 OP
"Don't you know who I am" moment for the fascist. Thomas Hurt Jul 2022 #1
He is such an awful person Demovictory9 Jul 2022 #2
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