Texas AG Ken Paxton's habit of refusing to defend state agencies cost taxpayers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "The law was clear that affirmative action was allowed (at the time)," said Terry Goddard, a Democrat who was Arizona's attorney general from 2003 to 2011.
55% : The attorney general's office also wrote in the letter that it had filed briefs urging the court to do away with affirmative action because it was "abhorrent to the Constitution.""For these reasons, we are choosing at this time to withhold a decision on your request forrepresentation and for outside counsel," the letter said.
47% : He alleges that the commission is violating the Waco justice of the peace's rights under the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which limits government actions that substantially burden someone's ability to freely exercise their religion, and the Texas Constitution because it violates her freedom of speech and religion.
46% : Asked in 2020 about not representing the commission, an attorney general spokesman told the Houston Chronicle, "We believe judges retain their right to religious liberty when they take the bench."
45% : In late 2019, a justice of the peace in Waco, less than two hours south of Dallas, sued the judicial commission in district court after it issued her a public warning because of statements she made to the media about disagreeing with and refusing to perform same-sex marriages after they'd been legalized, casting "doubt on her capacity to act impartially."
44% : Another has been his choice not to represent the State Commission on Judicial Conduct after it issued a public warning to a justice of the peace who refused to perform same-sex marriages despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized the unions.
39% : A few months later, the county judge of Jack County, northwest of Fort Worth, sued the judicial commission in federal court, arguing that he also was at risk of being sanctioned because he did not perform same-sex marriages.

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