Lawyers for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have prevailed in getting the judge kicked off his criminal securities fraud case. The highest criminal court in the Lone Star State declined to overturn an intermediate appellate court’s ruling removing Judge George Gallagher and voiding his orders.
Special prosecutors in the securities fraud trial against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have asked the highest criminal court in Texas to review the Dallas Court of Appeals’ order removing the judge from the AG’s case.
An appellate court stayed the securities fraud trial against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday. The issue is whether Judge George Gallagher is acting without authority to preside over the criminal case.
The prosecution of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken some weird turns this past week. A court of appeals ordered payments to the special prosecutors stopped, and in an unrelated criminal case, a federal judge removed one of the prosecutors from representing his client, a member of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, because he had a conflict of interest.
Texas Attorney General Paxton was in Dallas to hear his lawyers argue that the court should “nip in the bud” any improper methods used in selecting a grand jury under the new system in Texas.
The wife of the criminal judge who had to recuse himself from the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton securities fraud case joined with Dallas Morning News reporter Lauren McGaughy on a Facebook post on Tuesday to seemingly criticize Paxton. The
