Ken Paxton

This blog originally appeared at nbcdfw.

A lawsuit was launched on Tuesday against President Joe Biden’s administration over a Department of Agriculture school food program that forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity by more than 20 Republican attorneys general, including Texas’ Ken Paxton.

In the lawsuit, Herbert Slatery, the attorney general of Tennessee, asserts that the federal government is trying to compel states and educational institutions to adhere to anti-discrimination standards that “misconstrue the law.”

Read full article – https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/ken-paxton-among-ags-suing-usda-over-lgbtq-school-meal-directive/3032288/

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This blog originally appeared at The Washington Post

When Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) seemed to agree with Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion that other precedents that might be deemed “demonstrably erroneous,” such as those affecting the LGBTQ community, could be reviewed by the court.

Thomas referred to Lawrence v. Texas as one of the cases that forbade states from outlawing intimate same-sex relationships. The historic 2003 decision invalidated a 1973 Texas law that made sodomy a crime. However, once Roe was overruled, Paxton declared he would support the state’s abolished sodomy ban if the Supreme Court followed Thomas’s advice and ultimately decided to reconsider Lawrence.

Read Full Article – https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/29/texas-sodomy-supreme-court-lawrence-paxton-lgbtq/

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Category: Ken Paxton

Ken Paxton Among AGs Suing USDA Over LGBTQ School Meal Directive – NBC 5 Dallas

Texas AG says he’d defend sodomy law if Supreme Court revisits ruling – Washington Post