The Texas Senate on Tuesday rejected all of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him, moving forward with the first removal proceeding against a statewide elected official in more than a century.
The pretrial motions required a majority vote. The most support a motion to dismiss received was 10 out of 30 senators.
As someone who live in Texas for thirty years, I am genuinely shocked that the Texas GOP has managed to find someone who is too corrupt even, for them. I wouldn’t have said that was possible.
I wouldn’t be surprise to find out this is some kind of attempt to scapegoat him and draw the eyes away from the rest of their corruption. That’s just the cynic in me thinking out loud though.
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I think it’s simpler.
As things are in Texas right now, anyone he is replaced with will be a conservative republican. There is zero political risk to republicans in removing him. His only constituency within the party is the furthest right loons… but they tend to abandon “losers” quickly and will happily latch onto the newest far right loon. All while keeping him around does represent a political cost to republicans. That cost has gotten high enough that they’re willing to consider removing him.
They can remove him with no risk to their power and get rid of a headache at the same time.
The tipping point is that he tried to get the party to pay for the coverup for his crimes. He was spending their money instead of raking it in, and they decided to turn off the tap.
kp goin down for the big hurt, yeeehaw gettalong lil doggy
It’s been due (indicted years ago on fraud), but he managed to piss off his own party. It’s rare to see the modern GOP go after one of their fellow ® bearing brothers.
I wonder what he did because he was a good sock puppet for the GOP.
He spent their money
There’s a lesson here for the people who want to use Trumpiness to attain political power: if you’re not actually Trump, it won’t work.
Whatever “it” is, Trump has “it.” It’s to the extreme detriment of our entire nation and world, but there we are. Ken Paxton definitely doesn’t have “it.” I haven’t seen any sparkle of “it” in the other 2024 Presidential candidates (from either party).
The problem with trying to be Trump but not is that whatever deviation one makes will alienate Trump’s cult and reveal the weakness of Trumpism from a political point of view for traditional Republican politicians. They’ll turn on fake Trumps instantly.
I don’t know if Trump is going to go down for his crimes, but a lot of his crew will be, because none of them have whatever “it” is. I hope that the juries will take their job seriously and ignore any non fact based stuff from Trump. Who knows. Twelve is a lot of people…
A glimmer of hope. No one is above the law.
Cops usually are.
Ugh. Sad but you got a point.
Billionaires, War-criminals (helps if they’re former Presidents), Television doctors.
It’s a club.
Havent been following this, Im sure the article will clear up what the impeachment’s about
The House impeached Paxton in May, alleging a yearslong pattern of lawbreaking and misconduct.
thank you Texas Tribune for clearing that up.
The Texas Tribune has written dozens of fantastic articles on this topic. Many of which were linked in this very article. I’m curious how you missed all of them. Here’s a good one:
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/18/ken-paxton-impeachment-evidence/
forgive me for not reading every linked article on a site
As we say in Texas you’re all hat and no cattle good sir. Bless your heart.
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The problem isn’t that they are being too general. The problem is that they are, among other things, a print magazine. Listing every incident in which Paxton has violated the law would fill a year of issues without leaving room for so much as a contents page.
they could summarize beyond “lawbreaking and misconduct”. Or could have saved some space by not saying anything instead, instead of using these words to say nothing.
From what I now they’ve not been very informative on what the issue is.
You don’t “now” much then.
Dude typos happen on mobile.
I’m more forgiving of typos when they don’t pair with blatantly, absurdly, false statements.
No comma between absurdly and false. Not downvoting you, just helping you avoid typos!
Aren’t you a nice person.
It’s just like I’m on Reddit!
? The other guy went off twice. Three times if you include other people.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Texas Senate on Tuesday rejected all of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him, moving forward with the first removal proceeding against a statewide elected official in more than a century.
Those senators were Pete Flores of Pleasanton, Kelly Hancock of North Richland Hills, Joan Huffman of Houston, Mayes Middleton of Galveston, Robert Nichols of Jacksonville and Drew Springer of Muenster.
That motion struck at the heart of one of Paxton’s main arguments — that he cannot be impeached for any actions he allegedly took before he was reelected last year.
He was immediately suspended from his job and the Senate trial, which started at 9 a.m. Tuesday, will determine whether he is permanently removed from office.
A simple majority was required to approve them, and Paxton’s team challenged all articles of impeachment both individually and altogether.
Notably, Patrick granted Paxton’s motion that prevents the suspended attorney general from being forced to testify in the trial.
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