I have stayed away from discussing any of the many important electoral contests that will be (hopefully) decided today. But given that he is at the center of one of the most hotly-contested Senate seats, I can't help being reminded of his conduct during the campaign to overturn the 2020 election results, and what may have been the lowest of many low points in Ken Paxton's career to date.
In December 2020, when he was Attorney General of Texas, Paxton was the attorney of record in a lawsuit against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, seeking to overturn the 2020 election results in those states. He petitioned the Supreme Court to exercise its original jurisdiction to hear the case, and to do so on an expedited basis. [See my blog posting at the time here; Paxton's papers filed at SCOTUS are posted here].
In his filing, he wrote:
