Opinion alerts: Get columns from your favorite columnists + expert analysis on top issues, delivered straight to your device through the USA TODAY app. It's a good thing Paxton didn't have to whip out his phone and tweetĪgain, Paxton nailed the GOP’s “like John Wayne, only chicken” branding by driving off in the backseat of his wife’s truck and then later talking tough via tweet.īy late Tuesday morning, a Texas judge ruled Paxton didn’t have to appear at the abortion hearing anyway, which is a perfectly fine outcome that didn’t require the state’s top law enforcement official to run Bonnie-and-Clyde style from a subpoena. Paxton responded to claims he pulled a reverse Alamo by releasing a nonsworn statement on Twitter: “Given that this suspicious and erratic man charged me on my private property, he is lucky this situation did not escalate further or necessitate force. Honey, pull the truck around, we gotta get outta here! Capitol then ran like a frightened man-mouse when the masses stormed the building.) 6, 2021, when he saluted insurrectionists outside the U.S.
Ted Cruz showed when he fled to Cancun during a deadly winter storm last year, ran away.
Rather than be served, Paxton allegedly went all-hat-and-no-cattle and, emulating the bravery Sen. The thought of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fleeing a subpoena server by having his wife, a Republican state senator, whisk him away from the family’s home in a truck is a perfect, albeit unwitting, encapsulation of the modern-day Republican Party’s approach to law and order: Consequences for thee, but not for me.Īccording to an affidavit filed in federal court Monday, a man attempted to serve Paxton a subpoena to testify at a hearing Tuesday involving a federal lawsuit filed by groups that want to help Texans access abortion services outside the state.
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