The Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster, rejecting a lawsuit that sought to revoke his law license for alleged misconduct in a legal filing related to the 2020 presidential election. The court determined that the lawsuit violated the Texas Constitution's separation of powers doctrine.
a lawsuit against Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster that sought to take away his law license for engaging in “dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation” in a legal filing he and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted regarding
Chief Justice Nathan Hecht and Justices John Phillip Devine, Jimmy Blacklock, Brett Busby, Jane Bland, and Rebeca Aispuru Huddle joined Justice Evan A. Young, who delivered the opinion. Justices Jeff Boyd and Debra Lehrmann dissented. The lawsuit filed by Paxton and Webster sought to contest the 2020 presidential election results in four key battleground states that President Joe Biden won — Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. The lawsuit argued those states implemented pandemic-related changes to election procedures that were illegal, casting election results into question.the lawsuit in December 2020, days after it was filed.
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