Paxton’s win was unsurprising after the state’s top court sided with his deputy in a similar lawsuit last month.

The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.

Texas AG Paxton sues Biden administration over offshore drilling ban as Biden's term ends, citing overreach of executive power and threat to energy security.

The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election amounted to professional misconduct.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Biden Administration during its final hours to prevent President Joe Biden’s restriction of offshore drilling, saying it is in violation of federal law.

Now that Joe Biden has left office, it's a good time to reflect. Or take score, perhaps. Over the past four years Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton sued the Biden-Harris administration 106 times. And that includes a final suit mere hours before Donald Trump was sworn in as the current president.

An attorney discipline board has dropped its misconduct case against Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, after the state Supreme Court blocked related claims against one of his top deputies over their work on a failed lawsuit that challenged Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 U.

Donald Trump and the Texas attorney general have forged a friendship over the years, one that has been cemented in their shared political and legal struggles and their willingness to come to each other’s aid at times of upheaval.

The Commission for Lawyer Discipline tells the Texas Supreme Court that a related ruling made its case against Paxton moot.

A federal judge has rejected a bid by 20 Republican state attorneys general to block enforcement of a new rule adopted by the outgoing Biden administration establishing minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes.