Countless Republicans could do his job more effectively, but the attorney general is a crucial fighter in a long-brewing Texas GOP civil war.
  • SuperDuper@lemmy.world
    19·
    10 months ago

    Better question: why is anyone still pretending that it’s shocking when Republicans refuse to hold one of their own accountable? This is not some mystery, it’s their standard playbook.

  • NegativeNull@lemm.ee@lemm.ee
    131·
    10 months ago

    Despite a pile of "R"s bringing a case against him, it’s more important NOT to have a conviction/removal from office. The PR loss of those headlines are too painful to Rs, so they wouldn’t convict. The fact that he’s guilty as fuck is less important than that PR.

    • ashok36@lemmy.world
      131·
      10 months ago

      As the defense said during closing arguments: If it can happen to Ken Paxton, it can happen to any of them.

      For these chumps, it’s better to let the obviously guilty face zero repercussions so that they can be secure in the knowledge that their wrong doings won’t ever be accounted for either.

      The entire Texas Republican Party is, again in the words of the defense, a joke.

  • ganksy@lemmy.world
    11·
    10 months ago

    Because it was never about being right or just. It’s always about “I win, fuck everyone else”.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
    101·
    10 months ago

    Because identifying as a Republican means you leave your morals on the crucifix and burying those morals six feet under. You know like a good Republican Christian.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    10 months ago

    Republicans love how he wastes state funds on quixotic grandstanding lawsuits meant to demonstrate that the government is operating against the minorities they hate.