US Politics
A Lawyer's Duty: When a Defense Attorney's Conscience Overrides Client Loyalty in the Texas Senate Race
A former key defense lawyer for scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has endorsed Paxton's Democratic opponent, James Talarico, in the high-stakes U.S. Senate race, calling for an end to 'bootlicking' former President Trump and a focus on issues like education and healthcare. This political defection is a gut-wrenching but necessary rejection of a politics consumed by personal loyalty over principled governance, a clarion call that the survival of our institutions depends on citizens, lawyers, and patriots putting country over client.
