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Attorney General Ken Paxton had turned to the high court to overturn the ban after other lower courts declined to intercede.The Supreme Court of Texas on Thursday night denied Attorney General Ken Paxton's emergency filing seeking to overturn the State Fair of Texas’ policy banning all firearms from its fairgrounds. The fair is set to start Friday.
Paxton, who said hours later on social media that he would ask the state's Supreme Court to overturn the ban, has maintained that the fair's gun ban violates state law, which bars most government bodies from prohibiting weapons. State Fair officials say it has the right as a private nonprofit, and the city of Dallas says it has no role in the fair's gun policy.
“The State Fair of Texas is a private event operated and controlled by a private, nonprofit entity and not the City,” a Dallas spokesperson said in a statement. Tuesday’s ruling might cool some Democrats’ concerns that the court was created to secure more Republican-friendly decisions.
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