AG Pax­ton Files Ami­cus Brief Defend­ing Pri­va­cy and Safe­ty of Boys, Girls Using Sex-Seg­re­gat­ed Restrooms in Pub­lic Schools

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an Indiana-led amicus brief with the Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit defending the privacy and safety of boys and girls using sex-segregated restrooms in public schools.

June 22, 2022 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Files Ami­cus Brief in Sup­port of Race-Neu­tral, Mer­i­to­crat­ic Admis­sions Cri­te­ria, Against Equity”-Based Reverse Racism

Attorney General Paxton filed a Virginia-led amicus brief with the Richmond, VA-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support of race-neutral, meritocratic public-school admissions criteria.

June 22, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Joins Let­ter Urg­ing Sen­ate to Reject Biden Nom­i­nee for ATF Head

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a multistate letter urging the United States Senate to oppose President Biden’s nominee for Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Steven Dettelbach.

June 21, 2022 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Sends Let­ter to SEC Crit­i­ciz­ing Biden’s Rad­i­cal Envi­ron­men­tal Reg­u­la­tions Imposed on Amer­i­can Businesses

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led a multistate letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opposing its proposed rule to impose a crushing matrix of new climate-related disclosures on publicly traded companies and other entities.

June 17, 2022 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Suc­cess­ful­ly Pros­e­cutes Woman Who Pleads Guilty to 26 Felony Counts of Vot­er Fraud

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced his office’s latest election integrity prosecution in Victoria County. Monica Mendez of Port Lavaca pleaded guilty to 26 felony counts of voter fraud, including three counts of illegal voting, eight counts of election fraud, seven counts of assisting a voter to submit a ballot by mail, and eight counts of unlawful possession of a mail ballot.

June 17, 2022 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Joins Coali­tion to Open Off­shore Oil and Gas Leas­es, Fight Against Ris­ing Ener­gy Prices

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a multistate amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, urging reversal of a lower court’s decision to vacate the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history.   

June 17, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Demands Con­struc­tion of Bor­der Wall in Lare­do Sector

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) yesterday urging it to press forward with its original plan to build a border wall in Webb and Zapata Counties.

June 14, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Vic­to­ri­ous Against Biden Admin­is­tra­tion: Court Toss­es DHS Rule Let­ting Dan­ger­ous Crim­i­nal Aliens Off the Hook

Last Friday, Texas Attorney General Paxton — in partnership with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry — brought home yet another victory against the Biden Administration in federal court.  

June 13, 2022 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Secures Set­tle­ment with Con­tact Lens Com­pa­ny for its Decep­tive Trade Prac­tices Toward Texans

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, through his Consumer Protection Division, has secured a deceptive trade practices settlement against Vision Path, Inc.—specifically, its Hubble contact lens business—in state district court in Bexar County, Texas.

June 09, 2022 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Paxton’s Cold Case and Miss­ing Per­sons Unit Locates Woman who has Been Miss­ing for Over 40 Years, Short­ly After Cre­at­ing the Unit

In 1981, two deceased individuals, who were the apparent victims of a homicide, were discovered in a wooded area in Houston, Texas, and their identities could not be determined at that time.

June 08, 2022 | Press Release