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Ken Paxton Is in Big Trouble After Raiding Homes of Latino Democrats (newrepublic.com)

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The Texas attorney general is cracking down on Democrats in a supposed crusade to root out “voter fraud.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crusade against supposed voter fraud appears to be targeting the state’s Democrats.

Last week, Paxton’s office announced raids and undercover actions against organizations in Texas it accuses of illegally registering noncitizens to vote. In practice, though, the raids have taken place against members of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S., as well as several prominent Democrats in south Texas.

According to LULAC officials, the group’s members had their cell phones and laptops confiscated by law enforcement officials carrying out search warrants.

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[-] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 158 points 2 months ago

Things I will bet money on

They will produce no evidence of any wrongdoing uncovered from any of these raids
They will give some cryptic statement that tries to make it sound like they did find something
Texas lawmakers will continue to not hold Paxton accountable for anything

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Also highly likely, wrongdoing is uncovered eventually and it's like this guy's uncle or something

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[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

The whole point is to prevent registrations and it is working.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 83 points 2 months ago

Big Trouble my ass.

Look at what this asshole has already gotten away with, he's as bulletproof as Trump.

Too bad our courts are a fucking joke.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 79 points 2 months ago

They that afraid that Texas might go purple?

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 77 points 2 months ago

Yes. The electoral college is nearly unwinnable with Texas, NY, and California stacked against you. The GOP would have to actually run on policies that people want, so...

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Lol never. The party will die before they ever do that.

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 29 points 2 months ago

I think internal polling is showing it's gonna flip.

Time to send the Brute Squad in to scare the population into not voting!

[-] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That would be wonderful but I definitely wouldn't count on it.

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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago

He is not. He is a literal criminal successfully shielded from justice by Repubs.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The GOP is literal organized crime. I wish Putin would just release the RNC emails they stole back in 2015 or whatever. RICO these motherfuckers.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 2 months ago

And there are STILL Latinos who will vote for Trump, somehow....

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 40 points 2 months ago

They think of themselves as different from the more modern wave of immigrants coming through Mexico.

Makes no sense, but you see it with every demographic. Black Americans for Republicans. Women for Republicans. Voting against themselves because they don't think they're part of the target group.

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A lot of people around here didn’t think of themselves as Jewish until the soldiers showed up.

Now there are little plaques in the street in front of the houses they were dragged out of.

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

As a Jew, I appreciate this. It might be presumptuous, but I assume you’re somewhere in Europe, maybe Germany? Europe endured incredible generational trauma, and it would probably be easier to ignore all of it and not put up plaques, but some countries put in serious work to try to make things right and make sure something like that doesn’t happen again. Hell, I was recently offered an application for citizenship to the European country my grandparents escaped from, as part of their reparations program. What I’m saying is, there will be trauma and long term pain, but it’s also possible to heal and grow. Since there are other genocides going on in the world right now, it’s important to remember that these atrocities continue to happen in the modern world, but that it’s possible for us to stop them and move on.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

In Germany, they’re called Stolpersteine, or stumbling blocks (a metaphorical hurdle that prevents or inhibits you from reaching your goal). It feels like a warning that humanity must reckon with our susceptibility towards fascism if we want to achieve lasting peace.

[-] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

They look like this: It really makes you think seeing those.

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[-] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago

That's our future if things don't go just right.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

There were "Jews for Hitler" in the 1930's.

Didn't save them from the camps though. At best they bought themselves some time.

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Latino vote isn't a monolith.

Source: See all the Cubans going "Yeah! Fuck Mexico!"

[-] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

We are not a monolith, but the GOP is racist against all of us for our skin color, they are the monolith, and we should all be united against their bigoted politics.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I agree! Unfortunately, too many people don't feel the same way. You could extend this to immigration in general, all the descendants of Ireland, Italy and Germany are all too willing to pull up the ladder behind them. "Venezuela? Fuck those guys!"

The thing people don't get is human life didn't evolve in the Americas, we are ALL immigrants or the desendants of immigrants. The only difference is were you naturalized this year, like my daughter in law, 200 years ago like my family or 10,000 years ago like the First Nations.

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[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 months ago

Nonsense article. What indication is there that Paxton is or will be in any trouble?

"Big trouble" 🙄, like give me a break. He's a Republican asshole in a red state, he's not in any real trouble for doing this.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 43 points 2 months ago

I'm sure we'll punish him this time!

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

The only reason why this ghoul isn't in jail for corruption right now is that the ones tasked with prosecuting him were his own employees who were more worried about him or his cronies retaliating than seeing justice done.

Thus, the headline is a lie: he's immune from consequences in Texas and there's no way that the Garland DOJ will have the courage to mount a federal case against him. Least of all during a presidential election year.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago

I now know why the GOP didn't follow through when they told Obama "you'd never pick a good moderate like Garland for scotus." He did pick him and they continued with their bullshit "it's an election year wait for the election."

They knew he's too much of a coward to do anything whatsoever so he'd be as useless to them as he would be to anyone.

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"BiG trOuBLe" though!

[-] exanime@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

so.. what's the big trouble Ken Paxton is in?

He does another disgusting thing and people are mad... that is par for course for him

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

And he seems to end up getting away with it.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Lol no he isn't. He's already made what appeared to be a slam dunk case against him disappear, and the GOP is well known for doing everything it can to protect it's members from the consequences of their actions.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

He’s constantly in “big trouble” but nothing ever happens to him.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago

Let’s see if Texas’ Attorney General will charge him now

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 26 points 2 months ago

This slime has gotten away with every crime he's committed so far, so I'm very skeptical that he's in trouble.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

I think he’s going to continue to get away with pretty much whatever he wants until and unless he catches some high-velocity lead poisoning, or is exposed to an energetic exothermic reaction in close proximity. There is no way in hell any element of the TX state government will hold him accountable.

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Funny that he's targeting Democrats when just about every investigation/recount/whatever into voter fraud always turns out to be Republicans.

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Check your TX voter registration at:

www.votetexas.gov

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[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Fucking with LULAC is a bold strategy. Let's see how that pans out for the state.

Oh just wasted millions of dollars in obvious civil rights violations?

Great...

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

They confiscated their license to register voters as part of the evidence. This is to stop them from signing people up to vote.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

I’m sorry their what? You need a licence to hand someone a printed form or sit them down in front of a website? And this is supposed to be the state of freedom and small government?

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Freedom to do what they tell you to and a government small enough to fit into woman's vagina. There is a reason the state is only rated one lone star.

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

The goal is probably to prevent those voters from being re-added to the list before the registration deadline expires. If that happens then they've succeeded even if they ultimately lost in court sometime next year.

[-] dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I'm doing my part!

[-] zib@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Will that trouble result in consequences for his actions? One can only hope. But, probably not.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It's like these guys sit down around a big table and ask, "What did the Naxis/Taliban" do next before deciding their next move.

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