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Ken Paxton is a POS. A pox on his house and wishes for a miserable life.
Ken Paxton’s Wife Announces Divorce in Shock Statement — Citing ‘Recent Discoveries’
Texas State Sen. Angela Paxton (R) announced on Thursday that she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) after “recent discoveries.”
“Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds. I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage,” Angela Paxton wrote on X. “I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose.”
Paxton said she filed for divorce on “biblical grounds,” which would primarily refer to adultery or abandonment.
The Texas Attorney General released his own statement, pointing blame at “countless political attacks and public scrutiny.”
Ken Paxton is currently running for U.S. Senate for the seat held by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Paxton was elected attorney general in 2015. In 2023, the Texas House of Representatives impeached him over corruption allegations. He was later acquitted by the state Senate where his wife did not participate in a vote, though she attended the Senate trial.
Paxton was accused of using his position to help a real estate developer and he was also accused of an extramarital affair at the time.
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Ken Paxton’s Wife Announces Divorce in Shock Statement — Citing ‘Recent Discoveries’
Texas State Sen. Angela Paxton (R) announced on Thursday that she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) after “recent discoveries.”
“Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds. I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage,” Angela Paxton wrote on X. “I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose.”
Paxton said she filed for divorce on “biblical grounds,” which would primarily refer to adultery or abandonment.
The Texas Attorney General released his own statement, pointing blame at “countless political attacks and public scrutiny.”
Ken Paxton is currently running for U.S. Senate for the seat held by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Paxton was elected attorney general in 2015. In 2023, the Texas House of Representatives impeached him over corruption allegations. He was later acquitted by the state Senate where his wife did not participate in a vote, though she attended the Senate trial.
Paxton was accused of using his position to help a real estate developer and he was also accused of an extramarital affair at the time.
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Texas Used DOJ’s Concerns to Justify Redistricting. Now It Says They’re Off Base.
Days after saying it needed to redistrict because of constitutional concerns raised about its congressional map by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Texas argued in a new court filing Saturday that those concerns are in fact off base.
The seeming contradiction raises new questions about the decision by the state’s GOP leaders to conduct a rare mid-decade redistricting — which came after pressure from the Trump White House, as it looks to boost the GOP in next year’s midterms.
In Saturday’s filing in federal court, lawyers for Texas suggested that the constitutional concerns raised in a July 7 letter sent by DOJ to Texas should be discounted.
The filing argued that the letter, which warned that the state may have unconstitutionally used race in drawing four majority-minority districts and urged it to create a new map, is “not evidence — new or otherwise — of racial gerrymandering.” And it called DOJ “a third party with no actual knowledge of Texas’s redistricting process.”
Texas was responding to a motion filed Thursday by lawyers for civil-rights groups who are challenging the current map as a racial gerrymander. That motion noted that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) “approvingly cit[ed]” DOJ’s letter when he announced Wednesday that the state would hold a special session to redistrict.
Texas’ apparent acceptance of DOJ’s concerns, the motion argued, suggests state officials, as well as the national Republican operative who produced the map, gave false testimony when they told the court race wasn’t a factor in the map-drawing.
“I drew the maps blind to race,” State Sen. Joan Huffman (R), who chaired the Senate committee that handled the 2021 redistricting, told the court June 10, according to court transcripts reviewed by Democracy Docket.
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Days after saying it needed to redistrict because of constitutional concerns raised about its congressional map by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Texas argued in a new court filing Saturday that those concerns are in fact off base.
The seeming contradiction raises new questions about the decision by the state’s GOP leaders to conduct a rare mid-decade redistricting — which came after pressure from the Trump White House, as it looks to boost the GOP in next year’s midterms.
In Saturday’s filing in federal court, lawyers for Texas suggested that the constitutional concerns raised in a July 7 letter sent by DOJ to Texas should be discounted.
The filing argued that the letter, which warned that the state may have unconstitutionally used race in drawing four majority-minority districts and urged it to create a new map, is “not evidence — new or otherwise — of racial gerrymandering.” And it called DOJ “a third party with no actual knowledge of Texas’s redistricting process.”
Texas was responding to a motion filed Thursday by lawyers for civil-rights groups who are challenging the current map as a racial gerrymander. That motion noted that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) “approvingly cit[ed]” DOJ’s letter when he announced Wednesday that the state would hold a special session to redistrict.
Texas’ apparent acceptance of DOJ’s concerns, the motion argued, suggests state officials, as well as the national Republican operative who produced the map, gave false testimony when they told the court race wasn’t a factor in the map-drawing.
“I drew the maps blind to race,” State Sen. Joan Huffman (R), who chaired the Senate committee that handled the 2021 redistricting, told the court June 10, according to court transcripts reviewed by Democracy Docket.
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