Deep in the Heart of Texas
In an interview on the NewsNation cable channel soon after the overturning of Roe last week, Texas AG, Paxton told anchor Leland Vittert that he would be “willing and able” to defend any state law prohibiting sodomy brought as a test case before the Supreme Court. The question came up because, in his concurring opinion in the abortion case, Justice Clarence Thomas questioned high court rulings establishing same-sex marriage and the right of married couples to use contraception and, in the Texas case, outlawing criminalization of gay intimacy.
“Yeah, look, my job is to defend state law, and I’ll continue to do that,” Paxton told Vittert. “That is my job under the Constitution, and I’m certainly willing and able to do that.” (Paxton in May won the Republican nomination for a third term despite a seven-year-old securities fraud indictment, a separate FBI corruption investigation, and a bar review over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Paxton has denied wrongdoing in all those cases.)
“Yeah, look, my job is to defend state law, and I’ll continue to do that,” Paxton told Vittert. “That is my job under the Constitution, and I’m certainly willing and able to do that.” (Paxton in May won the Republican nomination for a third term despite a seven-year-old securities fraud indictment, a separate FBI corruption investigation, and a bar review over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Paxton has denied wrongdoing in all those cases.)
