I hope I've made clear that I find Ken Paxton's recent state-versu-state filing in the Supreme Court of the United States styled Texas v. Pennsylvania et al, to be at the least insupportable and ill advised and really an embarrassment to our State--and I have a large question whether he had any authority to file it. But it is the holiday season now, so I offer something a lot better, from an earlier "Texas" case in the U.S. Supreme Court:
"Life, liberty, property and the equal protection of the law, grouped together in the Constitution, are so related that the deprivation of any one of those separate and independent rights may lessen or extinguish the value of the other three."
Smith v. Texas, 233 U.S. 630, 636 (1914).