AG Paxton’s Law Enforce­ment Round Up

August 31, 2021 | Noteworthy

AG Pax­ton Joins Mul­ti-state Coali­tion Demand­ing the Con­tin­ued Crim­i­nal­iza­tion of Ille­gal Reentry

Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a 20-state coalition demanding that the US Department of Justice seek to reverse a Nevada District Court’s decision in United States v. Carrillo-Lopez, which recently struck down as unconstitutional 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the federal immigration statute that criminalizes the illegal reentry of illegal aliens who have previously been removed from the United States.

August 26, 2021 | Press Release

Texas Supreme Court Sides with Pax­ton Regard­ing Ban on Mask Mandates

Attorney General Ken Paxton commends the Texas Supreme Court’s decision to grant the emergency motion for temporary relief in the case of Abbott v. San Antonio, keeping the decision to enforce mask mandates with the governor, not local government entities.

August 26, 2021 | Press Release

Pax­ton Suc­cess­ful­ly Sues Vac­cine-Man­dat­ing School District

Last Thursday, August 19, Attorney General Paxton sued the San Antonio Independent School District and its superintendent for mandating all district employees receive a COVID-19 shot in violation of Governor Abbott’s Executive Order 38, which bans public entities from requiring individuals to receive COVID-19 vaccines administered under the Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) “emergency use authorization.”

August 23, 2021 | Press Release

AG Pax­ton Com­mends Court’s Deci­sion to Uphold Texas’ Ban on Live-Dis­mem­ber­ment Abortions

Attorney General Paxton applauded the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold a Texas law prohibiting live-dismemberment abortions.

August 20, 2021 | Press Release

Pax­ton Wins Again Against Biden Admin­is­tra­tion, Rein­stat­ing Texas’s Med­ic­aid Waiv­er Extension

Attorney General Ken Paxton commends a federal district court’s decision to issue a preliminary injunction after the Biden Administration capriciously revoked Texas’s Medicaid waiver extension.

August 20, 2021 | Press Release

Pax­ton Sues San Anto­nio ISD and Super­in­ten­dent Pedro Mar­tinez for Employ­ee Vac­cine Mandate

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint asking for a temporary restraining order against San Antonio ISD after it refused to follow Executive Order GA-38.

August 20, 2021 | Press Release

Pax­ton Vic­to­ri­ous Again in Lat­est Immi­gra­tion Bat­tle with the Biden Administration

Attorney General Ken Paxton is pleased with the district court’s decision to issue a nationwide preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration after they failed to detain dangerous criminal aliens.

August 20, 2021 | Press Release