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Ken Paxton: “The legislature passed the law in 51 that directed the…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Published | Video Starts at 27:41

It's one of the things that I'm told to do four things in the Texas constitution, and one of those things is such things as are required by law. Who makes the laws? The Texas legislature. The legislature passed the law in 51 that directed the attorney general to prosecute voter fraud. largely because I think that they didn't trust the local DAs to get that done because it's very political. And so that's what we did we prosecuted voter fraud and we had plenty of it. (27:41–27:47)

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Asserts that a 1951 Texas law directed the Attorney General to prosecute voter fraud.

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