Ken Paxton’s difficult summer turned, as September rolled around, into a triumphant autumn. After he was impeached by the Texas House on twenty counts alleging corruption, a jury whose majority consisted of elected Republicans under intense political pressure to acquit him did just that, leaving Paxton tanned, rested, and fully in command as the state’s chief legal officer. As fall turns to winter, it appears Paxton isn’t content to just kick back in the luxurious Oklahoma lodge he apparently bought last year without filing the required financial disclosure forms. Rather, the embattled attorney general has spent the past few weeks filing lawsuits and authoring opinions with a downright audacious energy. If you stopped paying attention to Paxton after he was acquitted in his impeachment hearing,…
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