DALLAS (AP) — Lawyers for Texas’ embattled attorney general have asked the state bar association to drop its investigation into whether the Republican’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct, arguing the probe is an unconstitutional overreach.
In late May, the State Bar of Texas began looking into Attorney General Ken Paxton’s petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block Joe Biden’s victory based on bogus claims of fraud. The investigation was prompted by a Democratic Party activist’s complaint that the Republican official’s actions were frivolous and unethical.
In a wide-ranging formal response Thursday, Paxton’s office argued that the activist lacks the standing to bring a complaint against the attorney general and that the bar’s investigation amounts to the judicial branch unconstitutionally intervening in the work of the executive.
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