Texas AG Defies Order To Release January 6th Records

January 22, 2022 Republicans, Trump cultists

The Texas Tribune reports:

Attorney General Ken Paxton said the Travis County district attorney’s determination that Paxton violated open records laws by withholding information related to his trip to Washington, D.C., on the day of the Capitol insurrection was “meritless” and that his office had fulfilled its obligation under the law.

Last week, the district attorney’s office gave Paxton four business days to turn over communications requested by the state’s leading newspapers relating to his trip or face a lawsuit.

On Friday, Austin Kinghorn, a lawyer for the attorney general’s office, dismissed the district attorney’s findings, saying that office had provided no provisions under the state’s open records law that had been violated and implied that the newspapers had made the requests to publish stories about them.

The Austin American-Statesman reports:



Paxton had given a speech at a pro-Trump rally just hours before the violence erupted in Washington, but his office hasn’t released messages to Texas media outlets that sought the records under the Texas Public Information Act.

Travis County District Attorney José Garza’s office launched an investigation after top editors at several of the state’s largest newspapers wrote a joint complaint about Paxton’s denials of their information requests. Those papers are the Austin American-Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News.

Paxton is a Republican running for re-election this year. He is currently facing the fiercest scrutiny of his decades-long political career, with several GOP challengers, three state criminal indictments, allegations of an extramarital affair and a pending FBI bribery investigation.

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