Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) has produced no evidence that a Latino advocacy group is registering non-citizens to vote, a federal judge said Thursday, signaling a likely end to his bid to revoke the organization’s authority to conduct business in the state.
US District Court Judge Robert Pitman suggested the wrongdoing Paxton cited in going after Jolt Initiative Inc. instead shows the group obeyed elections laws in registering voters.
Pitman, who didn’t rule from the bench, is weighing whether to shut down Paxton’s parallel proceeding in state court—an act of intrusion that federal courts will take only in limited ...