Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Slams Absurd Dietary Guide­lines” Pushed by a Com­mit­tee Appoint­ed Dur­ing the Biden Administration

Attorney General Ken Paxton slammed the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines that was published by an advisory committee comprised of individuals appointed during the Biden Administration.

February 21, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Demands NCAA Stop Allow­ing Bio­log­i­cal Males to Com­pete in Women’s Sports After Inten­tion­al­ly Decep­tive Pol­i­cy Change

Attorney General Ken Paxton asked for a temporary injunction against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) to protect women’s sports after an intentionally deceptive rule change falsely claimed to have prevented biological males from participating in female-specific competitions.

February 20, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Stops Biden-Era Emis­sion Rule that Unlaw­ful­ly Sought to Force Rad­i­cal Cli­mate Agen­da on States

Attorney General Ken Paxton has successfully stopped a Biden Administration edict that would have forced Texas to adopt unlawful greenhouse gas reporting measures after the Trump Administration dismissed the Biden Administration’s appeal of a lower court’s decision in Texas’s favor.

February 19, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Pro­vides Update on Law­suit Against Biden-era Rule That Would Require Texas to Treat Trans­gen­derism” as a Dis­abil­i­ty and Threat­ens Loss of Fed­er­al Funding

Attorney General Ken Paxton is continuing his multistate lawsuit to stop an illegal rule put forward by the Biden Administration that would redefine “gender dysphoria” as a disability and require all recipients of federal funding to allow bathroom usage, pronoun usage, and dress codes to be based on “gender identity” rather than biological sex.

February 18, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Announces Inves­ti­ga­tion into DeepSeek and Noti­fies the Chi­nese AI Com­pa­ny of its Vio­la­tion of Texas State Law

Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced an investigation into DeepSeek—a Chinese artificial intelligence (“AI”) company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (“CCP”)—regarding the privacy practices of its AI platform and its claims that its AI model rivals the most advanced AI models in the world, including OpenAI’s Model o1.

February 14, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Stops Rad­i­cal Abor­tion­ist from Unlaw­ful­ly Sup­ply­ing Dan­ger­ous Drugs to Kill Unborn Babies

Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a $100,000 penalty and permanent injunction against New York-based Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter for unlawfully providing abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents in violation of state law.

February 14, 2025 | Press Release

Mur­der­er Con­vict­ed of Thanks­giv­ing Day Dou­ble Homi­cide Exe­cut­ed Fol­low­ing Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton’s Efforts to Secure Justice

Texas has executed Richard Lee Tabler, who was convicted of a double homicide and admitted to killing two others, after Attorney General Ken Paxton fought to uphold his death sentence.

February 13, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Con­tin­ues Fight to Pro­tect Girls’ Sports in Texas and Announces Inves­ti­ga­tion into Hut­to ISD and Richard­son ISD

Attorney General Ken Paxton is continuing his efforts to investigate and hold accountable any school district or official who openly disregards Texas law protecting the integrity of women’s athletics.

February 10, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Issues Opin­ion Pro­tect­ing High School Sports from Com­peti­tors Abus­ing Dan­ger­ous Gen­der Tran­si­tion” Drugs

Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion detailing that an alleged “gender transition” is not a valid medical purpose for student-athletes to take steroids and that the University Interscholastic League (“UIL”) should prohibit students abusing such drugs from competitions.

February 07, 2025 | Press Release