His misadventures may read like a comic strip, but the damage Attorney General Ken Paxton...
FILE - In this June 22, 2017 file photo, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas. As Paxton seeks to fend off legal troubles and win a third term as Texas' top law enforcement official, his agency has come unmoored by disarray behind the scenes, with seasoned lawyers quitting over practices they say aim to slant legal work, reward loyalists and drum out dissent.
has quietly fallen apart because of the AG’s bungling. Six of the people indicted are now free. One is being held in the Coryell County jail on other charges, while an eighth died in jail. The AP reports that Paxton’s attorneys were recently forced to drop four of the human trafficking and sexual assault cases — because they misplaced one of the victims.
The AP investigation confirmed what Texans already knew: It’s been broken since Jan. 5, 2015, the day Paxton raised his right hand and took the oath of office.office, fell apart under his watch — the AG himself was gallivanting around the country filing absurd lawsuits claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen. When he wasn’t making a fool of himself in federal court, he was a warm-up act for Trump at the White House gathering of insurrectionists on January 6.
The AP investigation found that, as of August, the number of assistant attorneys general in the division that handles human trafficking cases was down by 40 percent. The number of assistant attorneys general in the criminal prosecutions division was down more than 25 percent from two years ago. The group that deals with financial and white-collar cases had been cut by more than half and has merged with another division.
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