The Texas Tribune reports:
A Texas State Bar complaint is moving forward, accusing Attorney General Ken Paxton of professional misconduct when he sued to overturn 2020 presidential election results in four battleground states. Sunday was the deadline for the State Bar of Texas to dismiss its complaint, according to Jim Harrington, one of the 16 lawyers who have brought the complaint along with the nonprofit group Lawyers Defending American Democracy.
Paxton must now decide in 20 days either to participate in a trial by jury in Travis County or an internal investigatory and evidentiary hearing by the state bar, according to Harrington. “They could take away his license,” Harrington said. “They could suspend him, they could reprimand him, whatever. It’s up to them, what they want to do and how bad they think the conduct was.”
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A Texas State Bar complaint is moving forward, accusing Attorney General Ken Paxton of professional misconduct when he sued to overturn 2020 presidential election results in four battleground states. @TexasTribune https://t.co/iCq9viMccU
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