Image: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (center) met with President Donald Trump (right) and State Senator Brandon Creighton (left) on September 22, 2019, at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Austin and Conroe, December 5 – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a letter ruling to the Conroe Independent […]
Image: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton overruled Conroe Independent School District’s phony claims of exemptions under the “attorney-client privilege” in an effort to avoid releasing documents in response to a Public Information Act request. Conroe, October 15 – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton overruled Conroe Independent School District (CISD) and its General Counsel Carrie Galatas […]
Image: Senator Brandon Creighton (left), Republican of Conroe, met with President of the United States Donald Trump (right) and Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton (center) on Sunday, September 22, 2019, to discuss federal aid after the Imelda storm. The meeting occurred at Ellington Air Force Base. (Photograph courtesy of State Senator Angela Paxton.) The […]
AUSTIN, August 8 – Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that the Child Exploitation Unit of his office arrested 32-year-old Camron Lee Wood, of Eagle Lake, Texas, on one count of possession of child pornography and one count of promotion of child pornography. A CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children […]
Conroe, August 5 – The Texas Constitution – and numerous Texas Attorney General Opinions – could not be more clear: it is against Texas law for a County government or a city to provide tax dollars to private nonprofit corporations and foundations. Nevertheless, the Montgomery County Commissioners Court – and three of its Commissioners, Mike […]
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to stay a U.S. District Court’s unlawful injunction and allow Texas to immediately end taxpayer payments to Planned Parenthood through the state’s Medicaid program. Last month, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit unanimously lifted the district court’s […]
Image: Precinct 4 Montgomery County Constable Kenneth “Rowdy” Hayden (center, with beard) attended the East Montgomery County Republican Women’s “Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner” on January 9, 2019. PUBLISHER’S NOTE, DECEMBER 31, 2019: THERE HAS BEEN A MAJOR UPDATE TO THIS STORY. THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT CLEARED CONSTABLE KENNETH “ROWDY” HAYDEN OF ALMOST ALL CHARGES. […]
Austin, September 29 – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted a Brief to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in support of Special Prosecutor Christopher Downey’s criminal prosecution of outgoing Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal, whom a Montgomery County Grand Jury indicted in June, 2016, for alleged violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act (“TOMA”). […]
Austin, June 7 – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted the petition for discretionary review in the criminal case against Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal for alleged conspiracy to violate the Texas Open Meetings Act yesterday. The Court of Criminal Appeals has not yet granted the petitions in the criminal cases against Precinct 2 […]
BREAKING NEWS! Chambers County, April 27 – Jefferson County (Beaumont) Sheriff Zena Harrison, former Sheriff candidate Ray Beck, and former Sheriff candidate Joe Stevenson were indicted by a Chambers County Grand Jury today and arrested for campaign finance violations. The Chambers County Grand Jury unsealed indictments against the three that resulted from a related federal […]