Picasso-faced Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday told a Travis County judge he would not contest the facts of the case and accept any judgment, an obvious triage move made to avoid sitting in a deposition with the former deputies who sued him after he fired them for blowing the whistle on his public crime spree in October 2020, the Texas Tribune reports.
“Ken Paxton has never answered questions about his illegal and corrupt conduct. He is clearly terrified of doing so – even if it means taking a different position now about him breaking the law than he did at his impeachment trial,” said Tom Nesbitt, lawyer for one of the whistleblowers.