Although no evidence of widespread voter fraud has been found, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been actively pursuing election-related crimes since he took office in 2015.
, R-Royse City, would limit local prosecutorial discretion and would allow the attorney general to seek a court-ordered injunction to stop a local prosecutor from “limiting election law enforcement.”
“It’s striking to see Republican officeholders trying to micromanage community decisions,” Dunn said. “Prosecutors have absolute discretion to determine who it is that they want to investigate and prosecute. And the Stephens decision makes that clear. There’s simply not some legislative run-around [of] the court ruling.
Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas, said the bills would also hamper election worker recruitment.
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