Texas AG Ken Paxton officially joins U.S. Senate race challenging John Cornyn

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1. Judge awards $6.7M to whistleblowers who reported Attorney General Ken Paxton to FBI

This rumor has been floating around for a while. Paxton is a major league asshole who should had been impeached but for the games that the Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick, pulled. Paxton just got found guilty and liable for $6.7 million in a whistleblower lawsuit. I think that Paxton is probably a weaker candidate than Coryn in the 2026 general if the Democrats get their best candidate on the ticket.

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/ken-paxton-whistleblower-lawsuit-20260002.php

A Travis County judge has awarded $6.7 million to four whistleblowers who were fired after they reported Attorney General Ken Paxton to the FBI for alleged corruption.

In a judgment late Friday, Judge Catherine Mauzy ruled that a “preponderance of the evidence” showed Paxton had violated the Texas Whistleblower Act by firing the employees in retaliation for their allegations that he had abused the office to help a campaign donor.

Attorneys Tom Nesbitt and TJ Turner, who represent two of the whistleblowers, said in a statement Friday that state lawmakers now need to “do the honorable thing and fund the judgment so these brave public servants can be compensated.”

Paxton’s office in a statement said it planned to appeal the “bogus” ruling.

The whistleblowers’ claims, made in late 2020, triggered an FBI investigation into Paxton and spurred the Texas House to impeach the Republican official. The Texas Senate acquitted him and federal prosecutors reportedly decided last year not to file charges.