A disciplinary complaint was filed against the Texas State Attorney General

An attorney filed a disciplinary complaint against the Texas State Attorney General.

As I wrote on this blog, the use of attorney discipline on elected public officials is controversial - just look how it is used as a tool of retaliation on Pennsylvania State Attorney General Kathleen Kane.

What complicates matters is that the Texas Attorney General, same as any other state Attorney General REPRESENTS both the regulating Disciplinary Board and the court that is supposed to rule on his discipline, making the situation decidedly wrought with irreconcilable conflicts of interest.

The conflict of interest thickens when it is obvious that the Texas bar, same as all other bars, state and federal, within the United States, failed to comply with federal antitrust laws and continue "self-regulation" - which is, in fact, an admission to regulation as a criminal antitrust cartel, in violation of federal criminal and civil federal antitrust law, The Sherman Act.

And when the Texas Attorney General, same as the PA Attorney General, same as all State Attorney Generals and the U.S. Attorneys, who are sworn to uphold state and federal laws, must PROSECUTE those violating federal antitrust laws, while other laws requires them to REPRESENT the same public officials as attorneys.

And, of course, the Texas AG - same as the Pennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane, by the way, same as New York AG Eric Schneiderman, same as all other state AGs - continues to allow local governments to defy federal antitrust laws by allowing the legal profession to be run as a criminal cartel.

After all, the AGs are themselves licensed attorneys and expecting them to prosecute the regulators is requiring from them a self-sacrifice that they might not be capable of.

But, the complaining attorney also brought up an interesting - even though not new - point that the Texas bar is white-washing politically connected attorneys and do not discipline them.

 We'll see whether the Texas bar disciplinary board will dare to prosecute its own attorney.

Stay tuned.