Now that Joe Biden has left office, it's a good time to reflect. Or take score, perhaps. Over the past four years Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton sued the Biden-Harris administration 106 times. And that includes a final suit mere hours before Donald Trump was sworn in as the current president.
The State Bar of Texas moved to drop its lawsuit against state Attorney General Ken Paxton for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Biden Administration during its final hours to prevent President Joe Biden’s restriction of offshore drilling, saying it is in violation of federal law.
He then aggressively pursued cases against President Joe Biden’s administration after Trump lost reelection ... and watched as many other friends, including Ken Paxton, came along with me,” he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
The Commission for Lawyer Discipline tells the Texas Supreme Court that a related ruling made its case against Paxton moot.
Both lawsuits stem from the attorney general's attempt to call into question the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations ... questioned Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over ...
ends a yearslong attempt to potentially sanction Paxton over making false claims of fraud when he filed a lawsuit that questioned Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over Republican President Donald Trump.
The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.
At the time that Trump became a TikTok user, Biden was his presidential election opponent, and his campaigned concluded that TikTok was an effective platform in “the continued outreach to a younger audience consuming pro-Trump and anti-Biden content,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.