LAWLESS FARCE masquerading as Paxton "Prosecution" grows ever more DISGRACEFUL

"Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place."
2 Corinthians 2:14

Direct Action Texas recently obtained a court document related to the Paxton case that George Gallagher (the second corrupt judge in the case) tried to seal.  In it, we learn several new pieces of the information about the depths to which the special prosecutors and Chris Oldner (the first corrupt judge) plumed to create their "indictment."  Lowlights include:

• The special Prosecutors lied about the date one of their alleged "offenses" occurred because the statute of limitations had expired.

• Lying about the definition of the term "investment advisor representative"

• Allowing Chris Oldner to bully grand jurors during a time when their deliberations are supposed to be secret.

It's worth the 15 minutes it will take you to read the whole thing:

Paxton motion to Dismiss by Cahnman on Scribd

Bottom Line: This case needs to be dismissed...yesterday.

Paxton continues DOING AWESOME STUFF despite Persecution

"And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart."
Galatians 6:8

This is great:

AUSTIN — Attorney General Ken Paxton's office has declined to represent the Texas Ethics Commission in a lawsuit challenging a state law that bars the use of archived House and Senate footage in political ads.

The move is uncommon, ethics experts said, since the primary job of the attorney general's team of lawyers is to defend state laws and agencies in court. But the attorney general's office has the authority to deny legal representation to an agency and has done so before.

In this case, Briscoe Cain, a Texas House candidate in a runoff with state Rep. Wayne Smith, R-Baytown, is suing the state in an attempt to nix a law put in place in 1987. The measure prohibits "a person from using in political advertising any audio or visual materials produced by or under the direction of the legislature or of a house, committee, or agency of the legislature."

According to the lawsuit, Cain wants to use in campaign ads archived livestream footage from the House floor of Smith during the 2013 and 2015 legislative sessions. But Cain, who claims his free speech has been limited, is worried about running afoul of the law and getting fined by the ethics commission, which enforces the statute.

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In a letter Wednesday, the attorney general's office did not cite a reason for denying the commission's request for representation, but said the agency can ask for approval to hire outside lawyers for the case.

"The Office of the Attorney General has determined it is not appropriate to make an appearance on behalf of the Texas Ethics Commission in this matter," wrote Associate Deputy Attorney General Shelly Dahlberg.

Paxton's office did not return a request for comment.

 Meanwhile, Empower Texans details the legal case:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the latest conservative to be indicted for doing nothing wrong. The crony establishment has gone after Tom Delay, Rick Perry and others, using Texas’ notoriously flawed criminal court system to criminalize their political opposition.

A disgraced district judge, Chris Oldner, improperly harangued a grand jury into indicting Paxton on the word of State Rep. Byron Cook, a wealthy ally of House Speaker Joe Straus and the Democratic caucus. (Cook has long pushed to create state documents for illegal aliens, protect labor unions, and oppose pro-life activists.)

Think people are innocent until proven guilty? Not in our flawed criminal justice system. Once someone is indicted in Texas, even improperly, even illegally, they must fight to prove themselves innocent. And doubly so when the liberal media perpetuates lies about their case.

In the latest turn of events, the disgraced Collin County criminal judge arranged to have two liberal trial lawyers from Houston appointed to prosecute Paxton. Despite Oldner himself now being under investigation for judicial misconduct, a new judge is forcing Collin County taxpayers to not only pay for these ”special prosecutors”… but to pay more than state law or court rules appear to allow.

Texas law limits how much special prosecutors can be paid to the amount normally afforded for indigent defense, but visiting Judge George Gallagher of Fort Worth has ordered Collin County to exceed those limits and pay the special prosecutors hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Given how conservative Collin County is, one would expect the county’s chief administrator, Keith Self, and his fellow commissioners to stand up against judicial tyranny.

Moreover, it is judicial tyranny coming from a visiting Fort Worth judge for whom Collin County taxpayers have never voted, and will never have a chance to hold accountable.

Self and the commissioner’s court are not standing up for taxpayers. While two commissioners initially voted against Gallagher’s order-to-pay, Self and the other two commissioners buckled. In public statements, Self has said he hates the order, but is afraid to be found in contempt of court.

But the court is itself in contempt of our constitutional separation of powers. Neither Judge Gallagher, nor any judge, has the power to reach into the treasury. Court rulings can only be enforced by willing parties. And in this case Self and the commissioners court are willing to go along with orders that appear to violate the law. (Only commissioner Susan Fletcher has consistently opposed the illegal orders of Judge Gallagher.)

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District judges are seeing that even in Texas’ most conservative county they are free to exceed legislative limits, and reach deeply into the executive’s purse, to fund illegal orders in untenable politically-motivated cases.

Bottom Line: It's no wonder why the business as usual crowd sees Paxton as such a threat.

The ASTONISHING race for Court of Criminal Appeal, Place 2....

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man rules, the people groan."
Proverbs 29:2

Over the past few years, few trends in Texas politics have been more disturbing than the criminalization of conservative speech; even more disturbing is the fact that two corrupt judges who have presided over sham grand jury investigations against conservatives are now attempting to obtain the same statewide judicial position.

The Court of Criminal Appeals is the highest criminal court in Texas.  The Court of Criminal Appeals is to criminal law what the Texas Supreme Court is to civil law.  The court is comprised of nine judges each of whom is elected statewide.

In the current race for Place 2, there are three candidates in the Republican Primary: Mary Lou Keel, Chris Oldner, and Ray Wheless.

We've previously discussed Judge Chris Oldner on this website; heck, we've filed a complaint against Oldner with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.  Oldner is the corrupt Collin County judge who helped railroad Ken Paxton's indictment.  There's your first example of criminalizing conservatism.

Older is bad enough, but this race becomes truly astonishing when Keel enters the picture.  Unfortunately, this past Monday, a grand jury in Harris County returned a legally problematic indictment against David Daleidan who produced last summer's investigation into Planned Parenthood's sale of baby body parts.  Now take a wild guess which Judge presided over that grand jury.  THAT'S RIGHT: Mary Lou Keel!!!  That's your second example of criminalizing conservatism.

We've met Ray Wheless.  He seems like a solid guy who understands the proper role of a Judge.  At a minimum, he's (quite literally) the ONLY candidate in this race who hasn't overseen a bogus political indictment against a prominent conservative in the last six months.

Bottom Line: It boggles the mind that these two bottom feeders are both trying to run statewide considering their recent records.

CORRUPT anti-Paxton 'Judge' receives JUDICIAL COMPLAINT!!!

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them."
Ephesians 5:11

This past summer, Collin County judge Chris Oldner leaked sealed Grand Jury information to his wife regarding the Ken Paxton case.  This was a violation of the Texas Canon of Judicial Ethics.  Earlier this afternoon, we brought this matter to the attention of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct:

Oldner Complaint #1 Logistics by Cahnman

Oldner Complaint #1 Substance by Cahnman

DISGRACED Former Paxton Judge's REVEALING Political Tell

"A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
And his lips are the snare of his soul."
Proverbs 18:7

We intended to address this, but the indefatigable Jon Cassidy beat us to the punch:

“I think we see dark-money special interests that are attacking on social media,” said Chris Oldner, a district judge and candidate for the statewide Court of Criminal Appeals. “We see outside groups trying to influence not only through social media and websites but also something as extreme as what we saw in Austin a couple months ago with the Austin Criminal Court judge that was attacked outside of her home. And these groups are trying to influence outcomes and it’s really something that strong judges need to do, stand up for and push up against.”

Oldner has been best known for his role in a criminal case aimed at bringing down Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton’s attorneys have accused Oldner of mishandling the grand jury process that resulted in Paxton’s indictment on three felony counts.

Oldner’s WFAA statements seemed to refer to Watchdog.org and Empower Texans. The independent news outlets have reported on the court records containing those allegations, with Empower Texans adding editorial comment in agreement with Paxton’s allegations.

Despite the judge’s characterization of the news organizations as “outside forces,” all of the reported allegations against him are contained in court records.

“That means reporters are free to cite them accurately without risk of a libel suit from a perturbed judge,” said Watchdog editor Will Swaim.

“Like most American courts, Texas courts recognize the fair report privilege, the opinion and fair comment privileges, the substantial truth privilege, and the neutral reportage privilege, not to mention the absolute truth defense,” Swaim said. “Plus, Judge Oldner’s a public figure. All of those are reasons it’s perfectly legal to report on the allegations against him – whether the judge likes it or not.”

Paxton’s attorneys have accused Oldner of improperly attempting to influence the Grand Jury, and Oldner responded to some of those points Sunday, although several of his assertions are flatly contradicted by the facts of the case.

Read the whole thing here.

Bottom Line: When candidates for statewide office (like Chris Oldner) start yammering on about 'dark money,' it's strong circumstantial evidence they're in cahoots with Joe Straus.

Unethical Paxton Judge attempting to run STATEWIDE

"Let those be put to shame and brought to dishonor
Who seek after my life;
Let those be turned back and brought to confusion
Who plot my hurt."
Psalm 35:4

Remember the Judge from the Ken Paxton case whose UNETHICAL conduct in the case got his clerk suspended; looks like he's attempting a STATEWIDE run:

COLLIN COUNTY -- The ground is shaking under Republican Party circles in Collin County.

First, Republican District Clerk Andrea Stroh Thompson announced on Facebook that she had resigned and plans to run in the March Republican primary for the seat currently held by Republican State District Judge Chris Oldner.

Oldner is the judge who oversaw the grand jury that indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that he violated the state's securities laws.

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Earlier this month, in a 22-page court filing, Paxton's legal team accused Oldner of judicial misconduct. They asked a Tarrant County judge to throw out the case over Oldner's alleged misconduct.

The motion alleges — among other things — that Oldner violated the rules for how grand juries are to be selected, improperly entered the grand jury room while the grand jury was in session and violated grand jury secrecy when he told his wife that Paxton had been indicted while the indictments were sealed and not yet public.

Republican Collin County Commissioner Susan Fletcher provided Paxton's team with an affidavit outlining her conversations with Oldner's wife, Cissy. She also provided text messages from Cissy Oldner that indicated she was gleeful about Paxton's legal troubles.

In her affidavit, Fletcher says Oldner's wife called on July 28 and said Paxton had been indicted and that the case had been assigned to her husband's court. She says she soon received another call from Oldner's wife, asking that she not tell anybody because the indictments were sealed.

Read the whole thing here.

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