AG Paxton Leads 10-State Brief Supporting Legislative Immunity in  Arkansas Supreme Court Case

AG Paxton Leads 10-State Brief Supporting Legislative Immunity in  Arkansas Supreme Court Case 

Ken Paxton

AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed a 10-state friend-of-the-court brief supporting Arkansas in its legal fight to preserve the venerable principle of legislative immunity that first appeared in the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and was incorporated into our Constitution at the founding to ensure that legislators can do their jobs without fear of retribution. The city of Fayetteville sued the state of Arkansas to override legislative immunity, candidly confessing its goal […]