The suspended Texas Attorney General is staying busy ahead of his Sept. 5 Senate trial.
Gabriel Aponte/Getty Imagesisn’t scheduled to start until Sept. 5, but that hasn’t kept the soap opera from gripping the state’s headlines in recent weeks. This week it was announced that Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Angela Colmenero, who served as Abbott’s deputy chief of staff, as the latest interim AG, replacing John Scott.by an overwhelming 121-23 following a number of allegations regarding corruption and a $3.3-million settlement his office negotiated with whistleblowers.
With Texas being a Republican-run state, such a margin meant that a large and perhaps surprising number of conservative lawmakers who had long been supportive of Paxton chose to oppose the AG, who was reelected for a third time in November 2022. Ultra-conservative state reps from North Texas such as Frisco’s Jared Patterson, Lewisville’s Kronda Thimesch and Plano’s Jeff Leach were among the House Republicans who voted to send Paxton to a September Senate trial.
Even in the midst of the Fourth of July holiday week, Paxton’s name couldn’t stay out of the news. On July 3, Paxton’s defense attorney, the controversial, high-profile Houston trial lawyer Tony Buzbee, said that Paxton, a McKinney resident, would not testify during his Senate trial. “We will not bow to their evil, illegal, and unprecedented weaponization of state power in the Senate chamber,” Buzbee. The article noted that Paxton can still be forced to testify by the Senate; however, that effort would likely be met with resistance.
Paxton isn't the only one who will not be speaking once Sept. 5 rolls around. Thanks to a new set of rules the Senate adopted, state Sen. Angela Paxton, the suspended AG’s wife, will be barred from voting in the impeachment trial after she had announced she would not recuse herself from the proceedings.
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