Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is no longer facing a complaint from the Texas State Bar over his challenge to the 2020 election results, with the state bar association dropping its push for sanctions.

Mr. Paxton, a Republican, announced the complaint against him was abandoned by the Texas State Bar on Friday, saying it came “after four years of wasteful politically motivated lawfare.”

“I am pleased to announce that the Texas State Bar has finally ended its baseless and politically motivated attempt to stop me for doing my duty to defend election integrity,” Mr. Paxton said in his press release.

“The State Bar’s meritless case was not about justice or the rule of law but about weaponizing the legal process to attack me for boldly defending the rights of Texas,” he said. “For four years, this unfounded lawfare wasted valuable time and resources, but these unethical tactics will never stop me from fighting to uphold the rule of law, protect our elections, and defend the values that Texans hold dear.”

Mr. Paxton and his First Assistant Brent Webster asked the Supreme Court in 2020 to take up a dispute between Texas and four other states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia, that Mr. Paxton alleged had unlawfully changed election rules before the 2020 contest between President Trump and former President Joe Biden.

The Supreme Court rejected the invitation to get involved in the 2020 contest, but as a result, the state bar moved to sanction both Mr. Paxton and Mr. Webster.

It had alleged that the Texas attorney general misrepresented the facts in his petition to the high court surrounding the 2020 election, which the bar suggested violated ethics rules.

The Texas Supreme Court dismissed the state bar’s similar complaint in Mr. Webster’s case last month, prompting the bar association to drop its complaint against Mr. Paxton last week.

• Alex Swoyer can be reached at aswoyer@washingtontimes.com.