The Latest Breaking News from Ken Paxton

Legislators in at least two states are trying to allow transgender people to keep records of their name change out of the public record

U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman dismissed Attorney General Ken Paxton from the lawsuit, ruling he had no authority to enforce Texas’ abortion bans beyond state lines.

From today's decision by Judge Robert Pitman in Fund Texas Choice v. Paxton (W.D. Tex.): [T]he Court will grant [Texas AG Ken] Paxton's motion to dismiss and grant the preliminary injunction in part. Specifically, the Court finds that while Paxton has enforcement authority under H.B. 1280, the statute does not…

Lawmakers lowered the penalty to a misdemeanor in 2021, but then almost immediately began discussing raising it back.

AUSTIN, Texas – Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office made its case on Tuesday for state budget writers to fund a $3.3 million whistleblower settlement, saying the cost to keep fighting the lawsuit would be far higher.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on February 7, 2023, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging July 2022 guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that, according to Paxton, violates state sovereignty by seeking “to require…

In an interview with the Tribune, the governor also backed criminalizing some health care treatments for transgender kids and shrugged off the idea that he’s in a conservative policy rivalry with Ron DeSantis.

"This has almost become an industry on the right," expert says

AUSTIN, Texas — A fight is brewing over whether the GOP-led Legislature will fund a $3.3 million settlement that Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office struck with a group of whistleblowers.

In a statement, the attorneys for the four former top deputies who accused Attorney General Ken Paxton of crimes said state employees “cannot be expected to report government corruption in the future if they know the Legislature won’t back their rights.”

AUSTIN, Texas — What happens now that Ken Paxton’s office has settled the lawsuit filed by four whistleblowers who accused him of bribery and abuse of office?