Texas Attorney General Cannot Independently Prosecute Election Cases, Court Rules

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a border town hall in Brackettville, Texas, on Oct. 11, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Texas’s highest court for criminal matters has ruled that the attorney general can’t independently prosecute election cases.

In an 8–1 decision on Dec. 15 (pdf), the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stated that “the Attorney General can prosecute [election cases] with the permission of the local prosecutor but cannot initiate prosecution unilaterally.”