The State Bar of Texas (SBT) dropped its charges against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this past week for filing the lawsuit Texas v. Pennsylvania, which contested election wrongdoing in the 2020 election. The move came in response to the Texas Supreme Court issuing a ruling dismissing the State Bar of Texas’s (SBT) four-year-long attempt to discipline Paxton’s First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster over his role in the lawsuit, calling it an “egregious invasion of the attorney general’s authority.”
“I am pleased to announce that the Texas State Bar has finally ended its baseless and politically motivated attempt to stop me for doing my duty to defend election integrity,” Paxton said in a statement. “The State Bar’s meritless case was not about justice or the rule of law but about weaponizing the legal process to attack me for boldly defending the rights of Texas. For four years, this unfounded lawfare wasted valuable time and resources, but these unethical tactics will never stop me from fighting to uphold the rule of law, protect our elections, and defend the values that Texans hold dear.”
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