MEDIA ADVISORY: Ken Paxton Divorce Unsealing Hearing – Friday Dec. 19th
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2025
Contact: Michael Clauw, mclauw@campaignforaccountability.org, 202.780.5750
MCKINNEY, TEXAS – Tomorrow, December 19th, 2025, at 9:00am (CST), the 468th District Court in Collin County Texas will hear a motion filed by Campaign for Accountability (CfA) and a group of Media Intervenors to unseal the divorce record of Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton and State Senator Angela Paxton.
No dial-in number has been announced at this time, but media may attend in-person:
Collin County Courthouse
2100 Bloomdale Rd.
McKinney, TX 75071
Background:
In July, Angela Paxton filed for divorce “on biblical grounds” and—unusually—their divorce record was sealed from public view.
In September, CfA filed a motion to unseal the records, arguing that since Mr. Paxton has attempted to position himself as a paragon of Christian virtue and sought to force Texans to abide by his own moral code, the invocation of “biblical grounds” suggests the details of the proceedings may be of great interest to voters.
Later that month, Dow Jones & Company, Inc., The Washington Post, Hearst Newspapers, LLC, ProPublica Inc., The Texas Lawbook, The Texas Observer, The Texas Tribune, and The Texas Newsroom (Media Intervenors) filed a separate motion to unseal the records, similarly arguing that the public should have the right to access the information.
In response to both motions, Ken Paxton filed a brief in opposition, claiming divorce records are presumptively private under Texas law.
This week, on December 16th, CfA and the Media Intervenors filed a joint reply, explaining Mr. Paxton’s arguments did not stand up to scrutiny. CfA also filed its own supplement to the joint reply, which included new research showing that hundreds of Texas divorce matters—dating back to the 1840s—were neither sealed nor presumptively closed to the public.