Texas AG Ken Paxton's lawsuit against San Marcos, Austin dismissed by judges. Three other cities have passed similar measures.
A Hays County district judge recently dismissed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ’s lawsuit seeking to force San Marcos to enforce marijuana possession arrests. The background: In 2022, nearly 82% of San Marcos voters chose to decriminalize marijuana under Proposition A .
In June, Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer also dismissed Paxton’s lawsuit against Austin, ruling there was no legal justification to try the case. Ground Game Texas — the progressive group that first launched the proposition in Austin and worked with local organizations in the other four cities — expects Paxton to appeal the decisions to dismiss the lawsuits at some point.
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