Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s wife, a state senator, announced Monday that she will take part in impeachment proceedings against her husband.
against her husband. “Texas law compels each member of the Senate to attend when the Senate meets as a court of impeachment.
As a member of the Senate, I hold these obligations sacred and I will carry out my duties, not because it is easy, but because the Constitution demands it and because my constituents deserve it,” Angela Paxton said in a statement. Paxton faces 20 articles of impeachment—and one of them alleges the Republican had an affair with a woman and later arranged for her to get a job with a donor at the center of his corruption scandal.
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