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The core mission of the Texas Attorney General’s office includes defending the state and state agencies in court. But on Friday, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office filed a rare lawsuit against a Texas agency.

The lawsuit seeks to force the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s commissioner and board members to end three university work-study programs that Paxton’s office claims unconstitutionally discriminates against religious students.

Filed in a Travis County district court, the lawsuit alleges that the board is violating the First Amendment by prohibiting work-study participants from “engaging in sectarian activities, including sectarian cours

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