Texas AG Paxton fled home in a truck driven by his wife to avoid subpoena, process server alleges
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton allegedly fled his home in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, to avoid being served a subpoena, a process server alleges.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, on Monday to avoid being served a subpoena, a process server said in an affidavit filed in federal court.
Paxton was being subpoenaed to testify at a hearing Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by abortion rights groups aimed at preventing state prosecutors from going after them for providing financial and other aid to Texans seeking abortion services out of state.
In his sworn affidavit, process server Ernesto Martin Herrera said he knocked on the front door of Paxton’s home Monday morning and a woman identifying herself as Angela opened the door. After he said he was there to serve the state attorney general with legal documents, she said Paxton was on the phone and in a hurry to leave, Herrera wrote.
Supreme Court declined to order Texas abortion case back to the original judgeJan. 21, 202201:19Herrera said he offered to wait and left his business card with her. After he had been waiting in his car for about an hour, a black Chevrolet Tahoe pulled up to the driveway, he said. About 20 minutes later, Paxton left the house and Herrera approached him on the driveway.
“I walked up the driveway approaching Mr. Paxton and called him by his name," Herrera wrote. "As soon as he saw me and heard me call his name out, he turned around and RAN back inside the house through the same door in the garage."
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