Represented by a former attorney for Ken Paxton, a Wyoming-based group is fighting to keep its role in the pre-Election Day mailer campaign from further scrutiny.

The Texas Supreme Court has halted a deposition aimed at exposing who is behind political mailers smearing a transgender advocacy group.

The state high court paused the questioning ordered by a lower court judge just 15 minutes before it was scheduled to begin, delaying an effort to uncover who produced and financed the mailers.

  • supernight52@lemmy.world
    98·
    11 days ago

    I would put money on this being done by someone associated with Musk, Trump, and/or Paxton.

    Unrelated question- how many judges on the Texas Supreme Court are members of the Heritage Foundation ?

    • LongMember69@lemmy.world
      60·
      11 days ago

      You’re correct. From the article:

      The recently formed Texas Transgender Student Union is identified in disclaimers as the source of the mailers and challenged Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer’s order requiring depositions. Attorneys for the organization said the order would violate the group’s First Amendment right to speak anonymously. In a court filing, they also said the group “has no plans to engage in any more communications like those at issue here.”

      The Texas Transgender Student Union filed a petition and a motion for temporary relief to prevent the depositions. The Texas Supreme Court granted the temporary relief, putting the questioning on hold.

      The Wyoming group is represented by Chris Hilton, a former attorney in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office who also served on Paxton’s impeachment defense team.

    • Stormy@thelemmy.club
      8·
      11 days ago

      Ya, they’re not going to investigate themselves that’s all it is. They like this manipulative shit.