Paxton v. Twitter

Kendall Griffin prepares for a foul shot against S&S on Friday in Callisburg. She was named to the First State Bank All-Tournament Team. Staff photo.

Howe’s Teagan Stubblefield (11) drives against S&S on Friday. Staff photo.

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the second period by outpacing Howe 12-2 to take a 23-9 lead into the half. Howe was able to stay toe-to-toe with Muenster in the third thanks to Brynn Riley’s two free throws, and field goals from Emery Snapp and Aubrielle West. The Lady Bulldogs outscored Muenster in the third, 9-8, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the deficit.

Griffin was again the leading scorer with five points. Others were Riley (4), Shockey (4), Reece Smith (3), West (2), Emery Snapp (2), and Stubblefield (2).

The Lady Bulldogs then defeated S&S 45-43 as they led most of the first half but trailed at halftime due to a lastsecond buzzer beater. But the Lady Bulldogs rallied for the win against a team they were defeated 46-18 by in the season’s second game of the year.

Howe will host Bells Tuesday for their third district game of the season.

AUSTIN –Attorney General Paxton has defeated Twitter in court once again after the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit refused to reconsider its decision throwing out Twitter’s lawsuit against Attorney General Paxton.

In January 2021, Attorney General Paxton issued civil investigative demands (“CIDs”) to Twitter to determine whether Twitter’s widespread content moderation and censorship policies violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Rather than cooperate with the investigation, Twitter attempted to avoid transparency by suing Attorney General Paxton and alleging, baselessly, that the investigation chilled its free speech and even by asserting that its publicly-stated content moderation policies were mere puffery.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

After a district court dismissed Twitter’s lawsuit, and Twitter appealed, a threejudge appellate panel ruled that the lawsuit was not prudentially ripe. Twitter next sought reconsideration by the full court. That request was rejected without even a vote, and the panel amended its decision to hold that Twitter’s lawsuit was not just prudentially unripe but constitutionally unripe.

From the beginning, Twitter’s lawsuit has been nothing more than a thinlyveiled distraction. And recently reported details contained within the “Twitter Files” have confirmed that Twitter’s censorship policies were just as bad, if not worse, than what Attorney General Paxton was seeking to investigate and as many free speech advocates have been saying all along.

“I’ve been asking Twitter for years to answer questions about its content moderation and large-scale censorship, but Twitter’s only response has been to try and hide behind its bogus lawsuits against me,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Now that yet another court has ruled in our favor and more details surrounding Twitter’s censorship have come to light, I look forward to helping get to the bottom of any actions that the company took to mislead consumers.”