Breaking: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton impeached in overwhelming vote
— marked the first time in Paxton’s 20-year political career that he has been seriously penalized for his repeated allegations of wrongdoing.
Outside investigators the committee hired found there was evidence to support the whistleblowers allegations — and more. Some Republicans, including the House speaker, said paying the settlement was not an appropriate use of taxpayer money. “You all get to judge like that cart coming down the aisle. Are these just individual, isolated incidents of which you can dismiss? Or are they an unexplainable pattern of ongoing criminal conduct?” Johnson asked.
. They accuse him of obstructing justice by delaying the trial and “which deprived the electorate of its opportunity to make an informed decision when voting for attorney general.” “We often talk in this building about transparency in everything that we do because our voters deserve that. I feel like there wasn’t a lot of transparency for the entire two months of this,” said Tinderholt, a staunch conservative who unsuccessfully challenged
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