BREAKING: The Texas state House voted to impeach GOP state Attorney General KenPaxtonTX by a vote of 121-23.
A conservative warrior in the courts, Paxton has been the subject of high-profile headlines recently that talked about his lawsuits against the Biden administration. More recently, however, the AG seems to have fallen from grace within his own party, as a Republican led panel in the state House approved 20 impeachment articles against him this week.Investigators accused Paxton of a number of misdoings.
On Friday, Paxton called for peaceful protests ahead of the vote, claiming state lawmakers were ignoring the will of the voters who reelected him in November. According to the Texas Tribune, The lawsuit accused the Biden administration of seeking to “further its open borders policy by enacting a new agency rule that effectively nullifies federal law excluding aliens likely to become public charges.”
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