Judge tosses Ken Paxton's 'outrageous' effort to shut down Catholic migrant shelter ( www.houstonchronicle.com )

An El Paso judge shot down Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to close a Catholic nonprofit sheltering asylum-seekers, which the judge ruled violates state religious freedom laws.

In a scathing order calling Paxton’s efforts “outrageous and intolerable,” state District Judge Francisco Dominguez wrote that the Republican attorney general’s request to examine documents from Annunciation House that spurred his attempt to shutter the shelter was a pretext to justify “harassment of Annunciation House employees and the persons seeking refuge.”