Three months after being suspended from his duties as the state’s top prosecutor, the Texas Senate will begin what could be a weeks-long hearing to decide whether Paxton will be permanently removed from office.
with the attorney general to reconsider. Those top deputies eventually reported Paxton to the FBI and were subsequently fired or quit; four of them later sued Paxton under state whistleblower protections laws.; Paxton’s attorneys have denied the charges are connected to Paxton’s case.as only two elected officials have been removed from office in Texas through the impeachment process: a state district judge in the 1970s and former Governor James “Pa” Ferguson in 1917.
Under Texas rules, members of the state senate will act as jurors with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick presiding as the judge during the proceedings. Two-thirds of the members, 21 in all, need to vote against Paxton to permanently oust him from office. Paxton’s wife, Republican State Sen. Angela Paxton of McKinney, won’t be allowed to vote but is still counted as one of the 31 senators.
There are only 12 Democrats in the upper chamber. So, if they all vote against Paxton, they’ll still need nine Republicans to support his removal.The impeachment saga has brought out a who’s who of Texas legal minds who will beIn June, state Rep. Andrew Murr — chairman of the Texas House Committee on General Investigating that looked into the allegations against Paxton —Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin as the team that will argue for Paxton’s removal.
Hardin’s resume includes being a part of the Whitewater investigation against former President Bill Clinton, representing the trust of J. Howard Marshall II against model Ana Nicole Smith, representing all-star MLB pitcher and Texan Roger Clemens on charges he lied to the U.S. Congress, and former Houston Texans quarterback DeShaun Watson.include defending former Republican U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, former U.S. Sen.
Paxton retained his own illustrious team, including Houston’s Tony Buzbee. His resume includes representing former Gov. Rick Perry when criminal charges were brought against him nearly a decade ago. (The
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