The Texas Tribune reported that the Attorney General of Texas refused to give information about his appearance at Donald Trump's rally.
The director of public integrity and complex crimes at the district attorney's office wrote a letter to the attorney general stating that he had broken the law by not keeping records of his rally attendance.
The letter said that he would face a lawsuit if he didn't turn over the records within four days.
The Austin American-Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle, and the San Antonio Express-News all filed a complaint that Paxton was refusing to share records that should be public.
Austin Kinghorn, a lawyer for Paxton's office, said they had not violated any provisions of the state's open records law.
The newspaper editors are frustrated that they have failed to uncover anything worth reporting following numerous open records requests to the AG's office, and have sought to leverage your office's authority to further their fishing expedition, or worse, manufacture a conflict between our respective offices.
After attorneys general are considering charges for illegitimate electors who faked documents saying Trump won the majority of voters in states where he lost, Paxton refused to release records related to his January 6 appearance.
According to documents obtained by the watchdog group American Oversight, Trump supporters submitted false documents to Congress in order to make it appear that he won the states after the majority of votes went to Joe Biden.
The January 6 House select committee is looking deeper into the illegitimate elector scheme and the role Trump and his associates played in it after it was revealed that Rudy Giuliani was tied to the effort.
At the time of publication, neither the Texas DA nor the AG offices responded to Insider's request for comment.
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