Four ex-employees of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have asked the Texas Supreme Court's permission to move forward with a wrongful termination suit against their former boss because they still haven't received their settlement money.
Their renewed motion to the state’s highest civil court comes a little more than a week after the Texas Senate acquitted Paxton of all impeachment charges — most of them dealing with accusations made by the former deputies.
James Blake Brickman, J. Mark Penley, David Maxwell, and Ryan Vassar are part of a group of whistleblowers who, in 2020, reported Paxton to the FBI. They accused the embattled Republican of engaging in bribery while using his office to shield a political donor from a federal investigation.
"The political trial is over, and it's time for the case to return to a real court," Brickman told reporters at a press conference Monday.
A Paxton spokesperson declined to comment on the suit, but said the AG's office would file its own response with the high court.
"The Office of the Attorney General will respond to the so-called whistleblower plaintiffs’ comments in a written response to be filed with the Texas Supreme Court—consistent with that Court’s procedures—as opposed to staging a press event in the state Capitol," communications director Paige Willey wrote in an email to the Texas Newsroom.
The four men were fired shortly after making the report, and they filed a lawsuit in 2020 under the Texas Whistleblower Act.
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