The GOP's finest: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott
Remember that Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, who got
all hysterical about the Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage, writing:
"What is most disturbing is the extent to which this opinion is yet another assault on the actual text of the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law itself."
Well, it turns out Paxton, the Lone Star State's "top lawyer" (and we use that term loosely), doesn't have
such a good handle on "the rule of law."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been booked at a Dallas-area jail on felony charges alleging that he misled investors before becoming the state's top lawyer.
Paxton arrived at the Collin County jail Monday to be processed on two counts of first-degree securities fraud and a lesser count of failing to register with state securities regulators.
The 52-year-old Republican was fingerprinted and photographed before being released on bond.
Paxton joins former Gov. Rick Perry as the second GOP Texan
to be indicted while in office within the past year. Now that is impressive, even for Texas. Fellow Republican, Gov. Greg Abbott, hasn't commented on Paxton's newfound status, but the state GOP is
sticking with their
tea party darling.
The Texas Republican Party has condemned the felony charges against Attorney General Ken Paxton as a "sloppy process" that doesn't befit the judicial system that Texans expect.
The party said in a statement Monday that it expects the 52-year-old Republican to fight the charges with the same zeal he has used to beat back what it describes as an overreaching federal government.
Paxton's sure to show "zeal,"
all right:
The two first-degree felonies are punishable by up to life in prison, “the same as a murder charge,” Owens said.
Only hitch for Paxton is the law—it can be a very tricky business, that.