Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, one of the state’s most vocally anti-LGBTQ elected leaders, is facing a possible investigation by federal authorities after seven of his top staff members asked the feds to step in and investigate Paxton over allegations of improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential crimes, according to the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV, which broke the story early Saturday evening, Oct.
3. In a one-page letter to the Office of the Attorney General’s director of human resources, which the Austin newspaper and television standard got a copy of on Saturday, the “seven executives in the upper tiers of the office said that they are seeking the investigation into