First openly gay member of Texas Legislature files complaint against Paxton with state bar
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a lot on his plate at the moment — chiefly, the threat of an indictment on first-degree felony charges in Collin County. Then, of course, there’s the dust-up over his nonbinding opinion issued over the weekend that said county clerks can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples if they feel doing so violates their “religious liberties.” To see how that’s playing out, look no further than Granbury, where clerk Katie Lang can expect her federal lawsuit first thing Monday morning.
Now, it turns out, more than 150 Texas attorneys have sign a missive that says they’re this close to going to the State Bar of Texas with a complaint concerning his opinion. Those signatures were collected by Rockport attorney Stever Fischer, a former director of the State Bar of Texas, and Brian Bouffard, a Fort Worth military and criminal defense attorney. In their press release issued Friday morning, they say Paxton “has violated several sections of the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Conduct by encouraging state employees in their non-compliance with the United States Supreme Court.”
Their letter is below.
“There is politics, there is law,” they say in their release, “and then there’s the State Bar of Texas Disciplinary System, which can revoke an attorney’s license to practice.” Fischer told the the Texas Tribune he plans to file the complaint if Paxton doesn’t reverse course. Says Fischer, “I think he could very easily be disbarred.”
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