Posted on 02/05/2024 4:20:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Half of Republican state attorneys general and many of their immediate predecessors have faced ethics challenges to their law licenses since 2022, according to Federalist research. The majority were filed by The 65 Project in retaliation for joining the 2020 constitutional litigation Texas v. Pennsylvania, which demanded that Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin follow their election laws.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is battling multiple politicized ethics charges two years after those filed over Texas v. Pennsylvania. The elected attorneys general of Montana and Indiana, who weren’t in office to join Texas v. Pennsylvania, now also face ethics charges not for gross misconduct but for disagreeing with the state supreme court and accurately describing an abortionist, respectively.
“The goal is to chill me,” said Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita in a phone interview about ethics complaints against his law license. “The goal is to shut me up.”
These attorneys general have been protecting millions of Americans from unconstitutional Biden administration attempts to change laws without Congress, a practice Barack Obama dramatically expanded. They have supported the Remain in Mexico policy impeding mass illegal migration, defended landowners from federal seizure of their property, fought a requirement for transgender policies to serve school lunches, sued to keep leftist politics out of investment, and sued for records about the Biden administration designating school board protesters as terrorists.
In December, police showed up at Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s home after a false report of a shooting there, known as swatting. Swatting can get targets killed by police.
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They’ve been after Todd Rokita since day one
Just a coincidence I’m sure…
Meanwhile plenty of opportunity for Republicans to go after rat AG’s for truly traitorous behavior and like the spineless cowards they are they do nothing.
The problem is that in almost every state, the ‘Rats control the state Bar apparatus. Well over 50% of all attorneys are ‘Rats, and the plaintiff’s trial bar (think Jacoby & Meyers, Ashcraft & Gerel, Elk + Elk, etc.) are all Democrats.
Even though Indiana’s legislature and governor’s office are controlled by the GOP, it is hammer and sickle people like the ones who went after Todd Rokita who really hold awesome power. Rokita had to take the deal he did to avoid being disbarred (on phony charges).
What needs to happen is that the state legislature, and not the state bar, appoint members to the disciplinary commission, and that such members do not have to be attorneys. That, or amend the state constitution that makes the state AG immune from such complaints from the public, making the only way they are removed to be through the impeachment process.
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