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On Wednesday, LDAD, four former State Bar of Texas Presidents, and other distinguished attorneys filed an ethics complaint urging bar regulators to discipline Texas Attorney General Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr.
The 31-page complaint asserts a pattern of serious ethical misconduct, including having filed a frivolous Supreme Court lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results in four states.
The complaint is an extraordinary repudiation of an Attorney General by leaders of the legal profession and has earned media coverage in Newsweek, The Texas Tribune, Law.com, LAW360, and others.
Ethics Complaints Filed Against Texas AG Ken Paxton for Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election
"The injunction Mr. Paxton sought with the Supreme Court would have usurped the presidency for the next four years and cast doubt on whether truly democratic presidential elections would ever have been restored in America," Jim Harrington, one of the complaints signers and a retired founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project, said in a statement published on LDAD's website." Continue reading on Newsweek >>
High-Profile Group of Lawyers Seeks to Suspend or Disbar Texas AG Ken Paxton
"Asserting Paxton has brought “dishonor” to his fellow Texas lawyers and the legal profession, the group of 16 prominent Texas lawyers and the group Lawyers Defending American Democracy said in the complaint that Paxton has engaged in a pattern of “serious violations” of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct."Continue reading on LAW.COM
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