texas attorney general

We couldn’t make this stuff up…

Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott today played host to his Virginia counterpart, Bob McDonnell, during a fundraising reception at the Austin Club, where the two dragged the sack for McDonnell’s long-shot gubernatorial bid.

Lobbyists around town had been receiving phone calls from Abbott’s 20-something chief of staff in recent days, wondering why they were being encouraged to write corporate checks, a no-no in Texas but perfectly legal in the Commonwealth.

Decatur lawyer Barry Wise points out that because Section 38.23 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure provides additional prophylactic protections to accused citizens the Virginia v.

Moore decision doesn’t have any real impact in Texas. Mark Bennett wonders why then did the Texas Attorney General even bother to weigh in on the amicus brief.

Good question.

Texas’ attorney general filed the suits Wednesday morning after state investigators discovered the sites were violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.