The top lieutenant of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is being sued by the state’s bar association over claims he made in a motion to the United State Supreme Court that contained obvious fabrications about the 2020 presidential election, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster is facing a reprimand from the bar association’s Commission on Lawyer Discipline, which writes Webster’s “representations were dishonest. His allegations were not supported by any charge, indictment, judicial finding, and/or credible or admissible evidence,” the lawsuit said, adding that Webster also “misrepresented that the State of Texas had ‘uncovered substantial evidence … that raises serious doubts as to the integrity of the election process.'”
Being a Republican, Paxton responded to the suit by opening an investigation into the bar association, claiming that “liberal State Bar’s handpicked cronies are misusing charitable funds to make the (border) situation even worse,” and the bar association donates money to groups “that encourage, participate in, and fund illegal immigration at the Texas-Mexico border.”