Of course you do. But like he said, in this case Paxton is the attorney advocating for his client, the State of Texas, it doesn’t even matter what his personal thought on the merit of the case is, his job was to make the best possible argument for his client.
People are treating his advocacy in this case as part of his professional responsibility as though he was personally in favor of what the state did. We don’t know what his private thoughts are.
“[I]n this case Paxton is the attorney advocating for his client, the State of Texas....”
That’s an absurd argument. Attorneys General aren’t public defenders. They can drop cases that they find indefensible.
Exactly.
Sometimes you can win a war even while losing a battle, if the outcome of the battle brings you closer to your real objective.