A group of state attorneys general across the country filed amicus briefs Friday defending Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his top deputy, Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster, in a case brought by a Texas court. did.
The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the brief in the lawsuit, which began in response to complaints against Webster and Paxton over their decision to file a lawsuit known as Texas v. Pennsylvania over the 2020 election. The Texas Bar’s Lawyer Discipline Commission sought to censure Paxton and Webster for taking action over concerns of unconstitutional conduct by the state during the 2020 election.
“The real issue in this case…is whether the court recognizes the politicization of the state bar and the weaponization of its disciplinary rules against elected executive officers who are carrying out their constitutional duties…Furthermore, this type of political activity “There is a substantial risk that the Bar Association will encourage the Bar Council to pursue a complaint made solely for the purpose of interfering with the ability of the Attorney General and his staff to carry out their constitutional responsibilities.” “The weaponization of lawyers’ grievance procedures hinders people’s activities and disrupts the structure of the Constitution,” the brief states.
The list of AGs who have submitted briefs is as follows:
- State of Montana, through Attorney General Austin Knudsen
- State of Alabama, by and through Attorney General Steve Marshall
- By Treg Taylor, Attorney General of the State of Alaska
- By Attorney General Ashley Moody, State of Florida
- Through the State of Idaho, Attorney General Raul Labrador
- By Indiana Attorney General Theodore E. Rokita
- By Attorney General Brenna Byrd, R.O.A.
- Kansas, through Attorney General Kris Kobach
- State of Louisiana, by and through Attorney General Liz Murrill
- Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch
- State of Missouri, through Attorney General Andrew Bailey
- By Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of the State of Nebraska
- State of North Dakota, by and through Attorney General Drew Wrigley
- State of Oklahoma, through Attorney General Gentner Drummond
- By Attorney General Alan Wilson, South Carolina
- By Attorney General Marty J. Jackley, South Dakota
- Utah, through Attorney General Sean D. Reyes
- By Attorney General Patrick Morrissey, West Virginia
Read the summary here:
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“I want to thank my fellow attorneys general for protecting law and order,” Paxton told the whistleblower. “State bar associations weaponize politically motivated laws to intimidate elected leaders and their staff from upholding the Constitution, and to revoke the Constitution when it is inconvenient to their political agenda. This attempt to punish Assistant Attorney General Webster and myself for standing up for our country, our state, and our people will not succeed.”
