Ken Paxton

Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. (born December 23, 1962) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he has served as the Attorney General of Texas since January 2015 but, in May 2023, the Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives impeached him leading to his suspension. Paxton is a Tea Party conservative. Paxton was re-elected to a second term as Attorney General in 2018. He previously served as Texas State Senator for the 8th district and the Texas State Representative for the 70th district.

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 * We don’t want to be Venezuela. We don't want to be another country where people don’t trust the elections, where there's really no reason to go vote if you don’t know if the integrity of the elections is good. And I think in these states where you have all these mail-in ballots, where you don't have a photo ID and you don't know for sure who’s voting, and on top of that, you don't even verify signatures. You've got a real problem having any credibility in your elections and that harms democracy.
 * Exclusive – Texas AG Ken Paxton: Republican State Legislatures Should Make Sure Election Laws Are ‘Tightened Up’ (March 9, 2021)


 * I've seen enough of the Biden administration. Whether we're looking at Afghanistan or the border or what's going on with inflation, I don't have confidence in his ability to do the simplest of things. If you can't protect our citizens and get them out of Afghanistan after 20 years, how do I know that you're doing a good job with bringing in Afghans that we know nothing about?
 * Ken Paxton to Newsmax: Open Border Situation Would Allow Terrorist Network (August 26, 2021)


 * We won’t even know if they've done anything, and so, they'll be dropped wherever the federal government wants to drop them, and they'll disappear into our society. We'll never know, until something bad happens, if we have a terrorist.
 * Exclusive — TX AG Ken Paxton on Afghan Refugees: ‘We Don’t Know Whether They’re Vetted’ or ‘Terrorists’ (September 9, 2021)


 * Anytime you create a cause of action there, you could call anybody that has the right to go to court a bounty hunter, because they're going in there for damages, which means they're going in to get some type of payment. So you could say that about any cause of action created by any legislature, whether it was federal or state, it could be viewed that way, if you don’t like the actual law.
 * Attorney General Ken Paxton on Texas Heartbeat Act: We Are Hopeful (November 6, 2021)


 * It's frustrating because they should first help the people on the border who are citizens the United States and who are suffering, who are at greater risk of having harm done to their property or harm done to them or to their families. It seems like if you cared about the American people, you would address that problem first, before you spend billions of dollars on Central American countries.
 * Exclusive: Texas AG Paxton Says Joe Biden’s Open Border Policies a ‘Travesty of Justice’ for the American People (December 15, 2021)