Texas AG Paxton ordered to testify in abortion case a week after a process server said he fled home

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to avoid a subpoena

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton must testify in an abortion lawsuit just a week after a court filing said he fled his home to avoid a subpoena seeking his appearance at a hearing in the case.

U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered Paxton, a Republican, to testify in a suit that seeks to block state prosecutors from going after abortion providers for offering financial and other aid to Texans seeking abortion services out of state.

Pitman's order was a reversal of his previous ruling, which had granted Paxton's request to quash a subpoena in the lawsuit several nonprofit Texas abortion funds and an OB-GYN brought against Paxton and local district attorneys in August.

A process server said last week that Paxton fled his home in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, to dodge being served a subpoena to appear at a hearing in the case. In a series of tweets, Paxton said he was avoiding a “stranger lingering outside my home” out of concern for his family’s safety.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-ag-paxton-ordered-testify-042705768.html

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1. "reversal of his previous ruling"

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3. The judge is basically saying Paxton lied to him

from the srticle:

...According to the judge's order, Paxton had initially challenged the subpoena on the basis that as a high-ranking government official, he could not be compelled to testify in a hearing, especially at the "eleventh-hour."

But Pitman said he was compelled to change his mind when abortion-rights groups filed a new motion last week citing the various attempts they had made to serve him, including repeated emails that went unanswered ahead of the scheduled hearing.

“Because the Court was forced to decide Paxton’s motion to quash on a very limited timeframe, without the benefit of Plaintiffs’ response, and because the Court relied on Defendant’s representations as accurate depictions of when Paxton had been served and notified of his expected testimony, the Court issued its ruling on incomplete facts,” Pitman wrote Tuesday...

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2. The Law& Order + Personal Responsibility crowd of,...

... Anti-Democracy liars and cheats.

They are all repulsive.

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4. So Paxton lied his ass off to convince the judge to quash the subpoena

Oh, judges really like being lied to! "Mr. Paxton, how did you get to the courthouse today? You drove? You should probably make arrangements for someone to get your car because you're not going to be using it for a few days."