Federal litigation: how many suits against the Biden administration
What they say
His campaign's issues page and its biography page both give a number for the suits he brought against the Biden administration.
“Attorney General Paxton led the national legal charge against Biden’s radical agenda and sued the lawless Biden Administration over 100 times, including to put an end to disastrous open borders policies.”
What the record shows ·
The Office of the Attorney General publishes no docket and no ledger of the suits it has filed. Its newsroom is the only list it offers and it is a paginated index of press releases, ten to a page, which returned page one unchanged whether a search term or a larger page size was requested, so it cannot be filtered to suits against one administration and is not a count of filings in any case. The office's own biography carries two related numbers and neither is this one: it says he filed 27 lawsuits against the Obama administration during a two-year stretch, and that he has "obtained an injunction or other winning ruling in more than 75 percent of the cases he's brought against the federal government". The one countable ledger the office does publish is its opinion series, which counts written opinions and not suits. His own account of the litigation is on his campaign account in general terms: "When the Corrupt Biden Administration came for us, I took them to court and I won."
Why there is no assessment here
Suits by Texas against the federal government plainly exist, and the office's own biography, cited here, describes them, so there is nothing missing from the record in the way "not comparable" would mean. What is missing is a count. The office publishes no docket and no ledger of its filings, and its newsroom is a paginated press-release index that cannot be filtered to one administration and would not be a count of filings if it could. Every label on the methodology page would therefore say something untrue about why this claim is not judged, so this card carries none.
Limit: What would settle it is a docket: a list of cases filed by the State of Texas against federal defendants over a stated period, from the courts rather than from the office's press releases. This desk did not read federal court dockets, and it is recording that it did not, rather than counting press releases and calling the result a check. Nothing here says the claim is wrong, and nothing here says it is right.