Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t be forced to testify during his impeachment trial that began on Tuesday.
Following the Texas House’s impeachment vote in May, Paxton and his attorneys
all of the articles of impeachment, dismissing specific impeachment articles and also not allowing certain evidence in the trial.A simple majority was needed to grant any of Paxton’s motions. Republicans control the Senate 19-12. However, Paxton’s wife, Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, is barred from voting during the trial.
Had the Senators voted along party lines and sided with Paxton, a darling of Texas Republicans who has been elected three times and is an ally of former President Donald Trump, then the trial could have been a lot shorter or not happened at all.The first motion Senators voted on was to dismiss all 20 impeachment articles. They quashed it 24-6. The 15 motions that followed were also rejected, and the vote was not particularly close.Six senators sided with Paxton on each pretrial motion vote.
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