Lawyers for suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are pushing for the Texas Senate to drop the impeachment articles against the Republican, whose trial is currently scheduled for Sept. 5.
against Paxton — some are related to his securities fraud indictment, while others stem from his alleged decision to use his office to intervene in a federal investigation against one of his political donors.“The impeachment articles that have been laid out by the House are bologna,” Tony Buzbee, one of Paxton’s impeachment lawyers, told reporters in Austin shortly after the Texas House voted to impeach. “Just so we are clear: the allegations are untrue. They are false.
They call it the “prior-term doctrine.” Paxton’s lawyers cite the Texas Constitution and say only offenses that happened after November 2022 — Paxton’sis not that explicit. It only says a person cannot be impeached for offenses committed before Cal Jillson, a professor of political science at Southern Methodist University, said Lt. Gov. Patrick will ultimately be the decider on how to interpret that constitutional language.
“The thing about the ‘prior term’ is that it’s very Texas-centric — this isn’t something we would talk about on the national level,” said Todd Curry, who teaches political science at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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