Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appeared to be booked-up Monday on securities fraud burden blaming him of faulty traders in a very very technical start-up before he accepted offices in January.
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Paxton is scheduled to appear in court next week so that Garcia can determine whether the Attorney General violated Garcia’s July ruling prohibiting the state from restricting same-sex marriage.
Paxton spokesman Cynthia Meyer said a contempt hearing had been canceled while state health officials finalize guidelines.
Garcia ordered the state recognize the marriage of John and James Stone-Hoskins.
Paxton asked the court to render a decision by 3 p.m. and indicated he planned to appeal to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals if the order was not quashed.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine would soon become an early defendant (later dismissed) in one of the most groundbreaking Supreme Court cases in history: Obergefell v. Hodges, which would legalize gay marriage in every state. John and his lawyer Neel Lane are not dropping their contempt claim, however, because, as Lane told the San Antonio Express News, they don’t want the next person or couple needing a vital records change to have to take federal court action.
“Under well-established precedent, a high-ranking government official should not be compelled to personally appear and testify absent extraordinary circumstances, which are present only when a high-ranking official has personal knowledge of information that is essential to a case and that evidence cannot be obtained from another source”, state attorneys wrote.
Robertson compared Texas’s continual attempts to resist the gay marriage ruling to segregation supporters refusing to recognize Brown v. Board.
Chris Van Deusen, a state health department spokesman, said the agency will work as quickly as possible to implement the new policy.
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Stone-Hoskins’ attorneys added that Paxton, who they describe as the “lead cheerleader”, and Cole are behind “contemptuous acts”, including denying same-sex couples to both be listed on their children’s birth certificates.
