AG Pax­ton Joins Ami­cus Brief Defend­ing Sec­ond Amend­ment, Stan­dard-Capac­i­ty Magazines

Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a multistate friend-of-the-court brief before the San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit defending Americans’ Second Amendment rights after California banned standard-capacity magazines for firearms, which hold eleven to fifteen rounds.

April 02, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Files SCO­TUS Brief Sup­port­ing Racial Equal­i­ty in Col­lege Admissions

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to overrule Grutter v. Bollinger in the Harvard University affirmative action case.

April 01, 2021 | Noteworthy

AG Pax­ton: Ille­gal Immi­gra­tion Costs Texas Tax­pay­ers Over $850 Mil­lion Each Year

As the border crisis caused by President Biden’s policies surges illegal immigration and escalates criminal activity, Attorney General Ken Paxton stands committed to upholding the law and protecting Texans. In his January lawsuit that halted the Biden administration’s unlawful 100-day freeze on deportations, Attorney General Paxton uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars that Texas taxpayers involuntarily spent on illegal aliens every year: 

March 31, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Com­mends Fifth Cir­cuit for Uphold­ing the TDCJ’s COVID-19 Safe­ty Measures

Attorney General Ken Paxton commended the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for ruling in favor of the COVID-19 protective measures implemented by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).

March 30, 2021 | Press Release

AG Paxton’s Law Enforce­ment Round Up

March 29, 2021 | Press Release

Law & Lib­er­ty: Immigration

On this episode of Law & Liberty, Deputy of Special Litigation Patrick Sweeten stopped by to discuss how Texas stopped the Biden Administration’s unlawful freeze on deportations, constitutional limits on changes to immigration law, and the burden Texas taxpayers bear for the cost of illegal immigration.

March 24, 2021 | Podcast

AG Pax­ton Announces $188.6 Mil­lion Mul­ti­state Set­tle­ment with Med­ical Device Man­u­fac­tur­er Boston Sci­en­tif­ic Corporation

Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced a multistate settlement with Boston Scientific Corporation (Boston) regarding deceptive marketing of its surgical mesh products for women.

March 23, 2021 | Press Release

AG Paxton’s Law Enforce­ment Round Up

March 22, 2021 | Noteworthy