If the Texas House votes to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton Saturday, his wife, State Sen. Angela Paxton, could vote in his Senate trial.
The wife of embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may be called upon to help decide his political fate should he be impeached Saturday on a series of charges, including one related to an affair.If the Attorney General is impeached by the state’s House of Representatives when it votes Saturday afternoon, Sen. Paxton and her 30 colleagues in the state’s upper chamber would serve as the jurors in his trial there.
Adding more intrigue to the story, one of the charges concerns alleged bribery after Paul was accused of giving a job to a woman Paxton was having an affair with in exchange for legal services. Paxton came clean about the affair to senior members of his political staff in 2018. “There is no court in the country that would allow a spouse to sit in judgment of the defendant or have contact with the jurors,” said Adrian Shelley, the Texas director of
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