# A Ken Paxton Moment

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/a-ken-paxton-moment/
- Published: 2026-11-03T16:07:17+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-03T23:04:51+00:00
- Original publisher: Reason
- Original article: https://reason.com/volokh/2026/11/03/a-ken-paxton-moment/
- Topics: Politics

## Key points

- Paxton’s 2020 court filing used a flawed statistical claim about Biden’s state wins.
- The author says the failure to correct it is the more serious concern.
- The episode is raised amid Paxton’s Texas Senate candidacy.

## Summary

The author revisits Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s role in a 2020 lawsuit seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s victories in four states, saying the episode raises serious questions about his conduct as a lawyer. The article argues that Paxton’s filing used a grossly incorrect statistical claim to suggest the results were implausible, and that his failure to correct it is more troubling than the original error.

Paxton’s Supreme Court filing said Biden’s wins in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin had odds of less than one in a quadrillion, based on results early on election night. The author says that calculation was statistically unsound and that the probability of Biden winning those states was nowhere near as remote. The piece links Paxton’s handling of the claim to his candidacy for a closely contested Texas Senate seat and to concerns about respect for the rule of law.

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