The impeachment trial for suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will begin on September 5, and he will be required to appear in person.
The impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton will begin at 9 a.m. Sept. 5, the Texas Senate announced Wednesday night after two days of private meetings to draft the trial rules.
Senators emerged from a closed-door meeting shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday and recessed until 10 a.m. Wednesday, then followed up by recessing again, this time until 1 p.m. "as the Senate is working hard on rules," said Sen.Bettencourt returned later to announce another recess until 5 p.m. Wednesday, expressing hope that additional delays would not be needed. Instead, the recess was extended, twice, first to 6:30, then to 7:30 p.m.
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