Ken Paxton

Paxton reportedly fled from the person attempting to serve the Texas Attorney General with legal paperwork related to a lawsuit from groups fighting the state’s restrictive abortion laws.

In an affidavit, a process server said that the state’s top attorney tried to evade him as he attempted to deliver a subpoena from an abortion fund’s lawsuit against the state.

The ruling follows an opinion issued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that deemed some “sex-change” procedures and puberty blockers child abuse under state law.

The suit came two days before the state’s newest abortion ban, triggered by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, goes into effect.

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels took to social media to decry the search and warn Texans that the heavy hand of government could come for them next.

A coalition of religious groups, conservative think tanks, and Republican attorneys general have chipped away at local and state authority, altering how the nation can respond during health crises.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues the Biden administration is violating the state’s “sovereign interest” by reassuring the nation’s doctors they can perform abortions in medical emergencies.

The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them and now potentially canceling appointments again illustrated the confusion and scrambling taking place since Roe fell.

The decision is a setback for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who filed suit against the Biden administration when the White House tried to rescind the policy.

The 1925 law at the core of the case was in effect until the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. It made performing an abortion punishable by up to five years in prison.