The vote immediately suspended the state's top lawyer from office. But the intraparty political brawl in the nation's largest conservative state is far from over.
, when a mob violently stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Paxton spoke at the rally in Washington that day before the insurrection.
House Republicans didn't seem to care. Sixty of them, 71% of the chamber's GOP caucus, voted to impeach. The move to the Senate could give Paxton's grass-roots supporters and national figures like Trump time to apply more pressure., when Paxton was indicted on securities fraud charges for which he still has not stood trial. The lawmakers charged Paxton with making false statements to state securities regulators.
That fall, eight senior aides reported their boss to the FBI, accusing him of bribery and abusing his office to help Paul. Four of them later brought a whistleblower lawsuit. The report prompted athat in February was taken over by the U.S. Justice Department's Washington-based Public Integrity Section.
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