They strike out at anything and everything that is not true Red. Everything is fair game for them, including political party organizations!
I like to point out that this is a witch-hunt. He has no evidence, he is digging to hopefully find pay dirt.
But the Attorney General doesn’t think anything is wrong with this…
Fox News reports,Texas AG goes after Democratic fundraising as GOP outspent in key races
The Hill
By Saul Elbein
October 21, 2024Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday called on federal regulators to make it more difficult for donors to use ActBlue, a popular progressive fundraising platform that has collected record donations for the Harris campaign.
Recent polling by the University of Texas shows Vice President Harris within 5 points of former President Trump in Texas — the closest a Democrat has been to winning the state since the days of Bill Clinton.
In a letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Paxton accused the platform of failing to keep off “straw donors,” people who use another person’s money to make a donation in their own name.
“Our investigation into ActBlue has uncovered facts indicating that bad actors can illegally interfere in American elections by disguising political donations,” Paxton said in a statement.
ActBlue targets small-dollar donations and has been a major part of the Democratic fundraising apparatus, collecting an estimated $1.5 billion from about 7 million donors.
With Election Day only 15 days away, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is sounding the alarm about a popular progressive fundraising platform that he says is interfering in the presidential election.
"Our investigation into ActBlue has uncovered facts indicating that bad actors can illegally interfere in American elections by disguising political donations," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in a statement on X.
"It is imperative that the FEC close off the avenues we have identified by which foreign contributions or contributions in excess of legal limits could be unlawfully funneled to political campaigns, bypassing campaign finance regulations and compromising our electoral system," he continued.
The judge went on to say,Judge reportedly strikes down Texas law that Ken Paxton frequently uses to investigate companies and nonprofits
A federal judge said Texas’ “request to examine” statute amounts to unconstitutional search and seizure, Bloomberg reported.
The Texas Tribune
By Alejandro Serrano and Kayla Guo, Vianna Davila
Oct. 11, 2024Attorney General Ken Paxton can’t use a state statute that he repeatedly relies on to scrutinize various companies and nonprofits — including an El Paso migrant shelter network and a nonprofit focused on increasing Latinos’ civic participation — after a federal magistrate judge on Friday ruled the tool unconstitutional, according to Bloomberg Law.
Judge Mark Lane of the Western District of Texas verbally granted a permanent injunction stopping Paxton using what’s called a “request to examine” to probe myriad practices. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed by Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a Boeing 737 jets manufacturer that received such a request from Paxton earlier this year requiring the company to produce a variety of documents.
Spirit challenged the constitutionality of Texas’ request to examine statute because it requires recipients to “immediately permit” the attorney general to inspect its records, without an opportunity for precompliance judicial review of the request — in violation of the right to freedom from unreasonable search or seizure that’s granted by the Fourth and 14th Amendments of the Constitution. Lane agreed.
“This call for me is easy,” Lane said at a hearing Friday, according to Bloomberg Law.
“The office of the Attorney General does not have arbitrary power under an administrative government regulation to demand unfettered access to search and seize property of any business in Texas,” said Kristin Etter, director of policy and legal service at Texas Immigration Law Council, an organization aimed at protecting the rights of Texas immigrants and refugees. “This is textbook 4th Amendment jurisprudence that protects us all from unreasonable searches and seizures.”
There is something rotten in Denmark when the Attorney General goes after the opposition party’s donors when at the same time they refuse investigate billionaire donors who are offering to pay voters!The Legal Questions Surrounding Elon Musk’s Million-Dollar Prize for Swing State Voters
Time
By Solcyré Burga
October 21, 2024Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s plan to give out $1 million prize to registered voters in swing states as he stumps for former President Donald Trump has raised concerns and could be illegal, some election law experts suggest.
Every day until the Nov. 5 election, Musk, the world’s richest man, plans on giving a million-dollar prize to people who sign a petition in support of the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution, which guarantee freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, among other rights. In order to win the money, petitioners have to be a registered voter from one of the following battleground states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina.
Speaking of rabid animals, Trump has threaten his political opponents with prosecution!
Trump has made more than 100 threats to prosecute or punish perceived enemies
NPR All Things Considered
By Tom Dreisbach
October 22, 2024With just two weeks remaining until the presidential election, former President Donald Trump has used his most recent appearances on podcast and cable interviews to escalate attacks on fellow Americans whom he calls “the enemy from within.”
In one recent interview, Trump said that if “radical left lunatics” disrupt the election, “it should be very easily handled by — if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”[...]A review of Trump’s rally speeches, press conferences, interviews and social media posts shows that the former president has repeatedly indicated that he would use federal law enforcement as part of a campaign to exact “retribution.”
Vice President Kamala Harris “should be impeached and prosecuted,” Trump said at a rally last month.
“I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family,” Trump said last year.
It is not just Vice President Kamala Harris but everyone who spoke against him!
“ELIZABETH LYNNE CHENEY IS GUILTY OF TREASON,” reads one post Trump reposted on his social media site, Truth Social, regarding the former Republican congresswoman. “RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS.”[...]“If the reporter doesn't want to tell you, it's ‘bye-bye,’ the reporter goes to jail,” Trump said in 2022. He appeared to suggest that the reporter could also face sexual assault while in custody.
Harris said it best! BBC reported,
On Wednesday afternoon, Kamala Harris stood in front of the vice-presidential residence in Washington DC, and delivered a short but withering attack on her Republican presidential opponent.
Calling Donald Trump "increasingly unhinged and unstable", she cited critical comments made by John Kelly, Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff, in a New York Times interview.
The vice-president quoted Kelly describing Trump as someone who "certainly falls into the general definition of fascists" and who had spoken approvingly of Hitler several times.
She said her rival wanted "unchecked power" and later, during a CNN town hall event, was asked point-blank if she believed he was a "fascist". "Yes, I do," she replied.
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I have a question: why is the federal investigation in to Ken Paxton’s indictment on felony securities fraud charges been stalled. He was indicted in 2015, and still no trial!
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