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June 9, 2021 5:33 p.m.
The State Bar of Texas is investigating whether the state’s attorney general violated professional misconduct rules in his effort to overturn the 2020 election, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Texas Attorney General Paxton led the charge to rally Republican attorneys general and others in an effort to steal Donald Trump a second term in office, leading a lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to throw out four other states’ election results and allow those states’ legislatures to decide which candidate would get their Electoral College votes instead. The Supreme Court rejected the case.
Biden won the four states targeted by Paxton’s suit Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin but all four state legislatures were led by Republicans. Hundreds of Republican officials attorneys general and federal and state lawmakers backed the Paxton-led effort.
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