At issue is whether it takes a constitutional amendment to let the attorney general lead a criminal prosecution — normally the province of county and district attorneys — or whether a law passed by the Legislature is enough.
In separate statements Tuesday, Abbott and Patrick chided the state’s highest criminal court for undermining a big push last year by them and the Republican-controlled Legislature to enact “election integrity” changes, which critics have assailed as being designed to suppress the votes of minorities, young people and other blocs that tend to vote Democratic.
In a written statement, Patrick said “we need checks at the state level to ensure that our elections are fair” and it would be “completely unacceptable” to let a particular county attorney or district attorney have the final say on an election-related criminal prosecution. At issue in the intra-Republican fracas is whether it takes a constitutional amendment to let the attorney general lead a criminal prosecution — normally, the province of county and district attorneys — or whether a law passed by the Legislature is enough.
How about that 2015 securities fraud case corruptKen TXSwamp
You know what could be really funny. They are successful in their ability to change the Constitution and a Democratic Candidate is elected as Attorney General to pursue voter fraud against the GOP.
And Paxton has still not reported his donors for this last quarter as required by law.
Unilateral pursuit of fake problems
shitholestate
ANOTHER WASTE OF MONEY
.GregAbbott_TX KenPaxtonTX about to try and arrest every black person in Texas to keep us from voting for BetoORourke.
Paxton is extremely political— he’s the wrong person for the job —he also doesn’t have credibility