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.
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.
Texas AG Paxton sues Biden administration over offshore drilling ban as Biden's term ends, citing overreach of executive power and threat to energy security.
Paxton’s win was unsurprising after the state’s top court sided with his deputy in a similar lawsuit last month.
The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.
The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.
Texas AG Paxton hailed a win as the Fifth Circuit ruled against the DACA policy, awaiting further court review.
The Commission for Lawyer Discipline tells the Texas Supreme Court that a related ruling made its case against Paxton moot.
An attorney discipline board has dropped its misconduct case against Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, after the state Supreme Court blocked related claims against one of his top deputies over their work on a failed lawsuit that challenged Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 U.
Trump’s current appointee to head up the Justice Department’s antitrust division, Gail Slater, indicates that he won’t be soft on tech this time around either, said Roger Alford, a Notre Dame law professor who served in the first Trump DOJ, during the panel.
The tech bosses who’ve lined up to pay homage to Donald Trump may have found a common enemy in the European Union, but that won’t save them from legal enforcement on their home ground, according to one of the new president’s key allies.
Trump's Justice Dept. may drop the U.S. challenge to SB 4, but other plaintiffs have vowed to push forward against Texas' immigration law.