{"id":43328,"date":"2020-06-26T19:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43328"},"modified":"2020-06-26T19:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T19:07:36","slug":"lets-put-the-ag-on-trial-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43328","title":{"rendered":"Let’s put the AG on trial … finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While the nation has been watching the machinations of a corrupt president and his minions, many of us in Texas have forgotten we have an attorney general who\u2019s fighting criminal charges of his own.<\/p>\n

Good news, fans and foes of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: A judge has ruled that the case should be returned to Collin County, where the Republican AG was indicted initially on allegations of securities fraud.<\/p>\n

Have you forgotten about that? Yeah, me too \u2026 almost. The indictment occurred in 2015. That\u2019s five yeas ago. The state and Paxton\u2019s defense team have been kicking the case around ever since. Prosecutors succeeded in moving the case to Harris County because, they said, they couldn\u2019t get a fair trial in Collin County.<\/p>\n

Sure they could. A Collin County grand jury indicted Paxton, after all, which would appear to make it possible that prosecutors could secure a conviction of the attorney general were he to stand trail in the county he represented in the Legislature before being elected to statewide office.<\/p>\n

As the Texas Tribune has reported: Paxton has been fighting charges that he misled investors in a financial services company from before his time as attorney general. Paxton has pleaded not guilty to all the allegations and was cleared in a similar civil case at the federal level. But when the Texas State Securities Board reprimanded him for soliciting clients without being properly registered, he signed a disciplinary order without disputing its findings.<\/em><\/p>\n

This matter needs a resolution. I happen to be one Texas resident who doesn\u2019t like our state attorney general operating under a cloud of criminal allegations. These things tend to inhibit the man\u2019s credibility whenever he opens his mouth.<\/p>\n\n

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While the nation has been watching the machinations of a corrupt president and his minions, many of us in Texas have forgotten we have an attorney general who\u2019s fighting criminal charges of his own. Good news, fans and foes of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: A judge has ruled that the case should be returned … Continue reading Let’s put the AG on trial … finally!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[1063,2652,6130,4177],"class_list":["post-43328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-local-news","tag-collin-county","tag-ken-paxton","tag-sec","tag-securities-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43329,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43328\/revisions\/43329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}