JUST IN: Prosecutors in AG Paxton criminal case ask judge to approve their $300 rate, noting that is what Paxton agreed to pay "an untested and unqualified rookie" to investigate allegations of federal misconduct in the Nate Paul matter.
"If Paxton's choice to pay Cammack $300 an hour appears to be disingenuous, it is only because it is: in successfully derailing this prosecution by spearheading a concerted effort to defund it, Paxton has referred to the Pro Tern's $300 hourly rate as unreasonable, unwarranted."
"No one - save and except for (Paxton)- can plausibly say that their collective experience as trial and appellate lawyers totaling 8 decades does not entitle the Pro Tems to be paid the same rate as Cammack, whose own experience, training and expertise is virtually microscopic."
Motion: "If this $300 hourly rate sounds familiar, it should: it is the very rate the Pro Tems were promised when they were appointed in 2015 but have been not been paid for their services since the first week of January 2016."
Paxton lawyers respond, saying prosecutors' request for $300/hour "lacks any legal analysis or merit."
"It is a naked attempt to insert irrelevant sensational allegations into this case to cause this Court to render a decision on an improper basis because there is no legal one."
"It is a naked attempt to insert irrelevant sensational allegations into this case to cause this Court to render a decision on an improper basis because there is no legal one."
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