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  1. Sep 11, 2023 · Attorney General Ken Paxton, middle, waits with his attorneys Tony Buzbee, left, and Mitch Little for closing arguments to begin at his impeachment trial at the Capitol on Friday September 15, 2023.

  2. Mar 26, 2024 · 2 of 10 | . Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is sworn-in at a pretrial hearing in his securities fraud case before state District Judge Andrea Beall in the 185th District Court Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at Harris County Criminal Courts at Law in Houston.

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    Under the Texas Constitution and law, impeaching a state official is similar to the process on the federal level: The action starts in the state House. In this case the five-member House General Investigating Committee voted unanimously Thursday to send 20 articles of impeachmentto the full, 149-member chamber. Paxton faced grim legislative math. J...

    There is a major difference between Texas and the federal system: impeachment means Paxton is immediately suspendedfrom office until the outcome of the Senate trial. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott would appoint an interim replacement. The GOP in Texas controls every branch of state government. Republican lawmakers and leaders alike have until this wee...

    The five-member committee that mounted the investigation of Paxton is led by his fellow Republicans, contrasting America’s most prominent recent examples of impeachment. Trump’s federal impeachments in 2020 and 2021 were driven by Democrats who had majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives. In both cases, the impeachment charges approve...

    Paxton, who served five terms in the House and one in the Senate before becoming attorney general, is sure to still have allies in Austin. One is his wife, Angela, a two-term state senator who could be in the awkward position of voting on her husband’s political future. It’s unclear whether she would or should participate in the Senate trial, where...

    The impeachment reaches back to 2015, when Paxton was indicted on securities fraud chargesfor which he still has not stood trial. The lawmakers charged Paxton with making false statements to state securities regulators. But most of the articles stem from Paxton’s connections to Paul and a remarkable revolt by the attorney general’s top deputies in ...

    Paxton was already likely to be noted in history books for his unprecedented request that the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Biden’s defeat of Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Now he is making history in another way. Only twice before has the Texas House impeached a sitting official. Gov. James “Pa” Ferguson was removed from office in 1917 for...

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