Federal judge orders Texas AG Ken Paxton to testify in abortion fund suit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton talks to reporters with Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to testify in a lawsuit over the ability of abortion funds to help people access the procedure in states where it's still legal.
Attorneys general rarely testify, as their lawyers are typically able to explain the high-ranking official’s viewpoint and legal argument.In this case, the abortion funds, which are suing the state for protection to resume their work amid the state's newly enforced abortion bans, argued that Paxton and his office had made conflicting statements, and that Paxton testifying was the only way to clear it up.
a Texan has one in “Denver or Dallas, in Las Cruces or Lamesa.” He's also stated that he believes pre-Roe statutes that criminalize abortion, as well as anyone who"furnishes the means," are"100% in effect."Pitman wrote on Tuesday that the funds had proven the testimony is warranted because of"exceptional circumstances.
"If their fears are unwarranted, then that will become clear during the course of his testimony," Pitman said."But the Court will not sanction a scheme where Paxton repeatedly labels his threats of prosecution as real for the purposes of deterrence and as hypothetical for the purposes of judicial review."
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