Texas lawmakers have issued 20 articles of impeachment against state Attorney General Ken Paxton, ranging from bribery to abuse of public trust as state Republicans surged toward a swift and sudden vote that could remove him from office.
FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas on June 22, 2017. A Republican-led investigative committee on Thursday, May 25, 2023, recommended impeaching Paxton, the states top lawyer. – Following years of scandal, criminal charges and corruption accusations, Texas's Republican Attorney General, Ken Paxton, finds himself on the brink of impeachment, and a GOP-led panel is heading the charge.
The move sets up what could be a remarkably sudden downfall for one of the GOP's most prominent legal combatants, who in 2020. Only two officials in Texas’ nearly 200-year history have been impeached. By moving against him, Paxton said, “The RINOs in the Texas Legislature are now on the same side as Joe Biden.”
The timing of a vote by the House is unclear. Rep. Andrew Murr, the Republican chair of the investigative committee, said he did not have a timeline and Phelan’s office declined to comment. Paxton, 60, faces ouster at the hands of GOP lawmakers just seven months after easily winning a third term over challengers —— who had urged voters to reject a compromised incumbent but discovered that many didn't know about Paxton's litany of alleged misdeeds or dismissed the accusations as political attacks.
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