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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A member of my family, a highly educated man who lives in the Pacific Northwest, sent me an email today that asks: What the hell is going on down there?<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n

He is referring to Ken Paxton, our state attorney general, who filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court that sought to give Texas the right to tell other states how to run their elections. The four states in question, I hasten to add, all voted for President-elect Joe Biden. Paxton sought to order the states to toss out those Biden votes and then endorse Donald Trump for re-election.<\/p>\n

The SCOTUS said “no can do.”<\/em> Paxton doesn’t have the standing to make that demand, justices said.<\/p>\n

I would have hoped the high court’s dismissal of Paxton’s idiocy would spell the end of Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Silly me. It ain’t happening … at least not yet.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Paxton vows to keep fighting. For what, I have no clue. The SCOTUS is at the very tippy-top of the judicial chain of command in this country.<\/p>\n

Now the AG is turning Texas into a laughingstock. Who out there is laughing? I mean, really! It ain’t funny, folks. Some of us in Texas are embarrassed beyond measure at what our state’s top legal eagle is trying to do.<\/p>\n

Consider that he’s already indicted for securities fraud and is awaiting trial in state court. Plus, the FBI has subpoenaed records from his office as part of a federal probe brought forward by seven assistant AGs who blew the whistle on what they allege is criminal behavior by Paxton.<\/p>\n

How in the world this guy, Paxton, got elected as AG in the first place is beyond me, let alone re-elected<\/em> four years later.<\/p>\n

My dear family member, I am sad to admit, has asked me a question for which I have no good answer. I do not know what the hell is going on here.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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