AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - The Texas Attorney General was sued in Texas federal court for alleged First and Fourteenth amendment violations by multiple individuals.
The complaint was filed on April 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University as well as the following individuals: Mario Carrillo, Joseph Canscino, Justin Champlin, Edward Espinoza, Omar Gallaga, Fatima Maniar, Jennifer Ramos, John Ruffier and James Scurlock.
The individuals range from journalists to project managers to students to campaign managers to attorneys, all of who have criticized Ken Paxton for issues including his policies and his federal fraud indictments and were consequentially blocked from viewing his Twitter account.