Federal judge allows Texas AG to challenge Harris County bail reforms: ‘Unleashing criminals’

A federal judge has granted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton a key win, allowing him to intervene in a lawsuit that produced the 2019 Harris County misdemeanor bail reform consent decree."The justice system must be dedicated to punishing the evildoer and protecting the innocent," Paxton said in a press release on Wednesday. "But far too often, leftist judicial activists and other liberal anti-prison organizations have worked to make Texas less safe by throwing open the prison doors and unleashing criminals back onto the streets. I will do everything in my power to reverse this disastrous poli