Ken Paxton should testify in his impeachment trial | Opinion
Now is the opportunity for Paxton to exonerate himself. As we all know, the House functions as a grand jury, gathering evidence to see if the case should even proceed, and the Senate functions as the actual trial jury, hearing sworn testimony from witnesses. Both former Gov. James Ferguson in 1917 and former District Judge O.P. Carrillo in 1976 testified in their own defense at their respective trials.
If Paxton truly had done nothing wrong, he could have told House members when he asked them to pay for his whistleblower lawsuit settlement. Or he could tell the Senate during his upcoming impeachment trial.Paxton recently said the House General Investigating Committee “rejected every attempt to seek a full accounting of the truth.” And who does he expect will give that full accounting in the Senate if he does not?An innocent person has nothing to hide.
He should explain why the attorney general’s office has been bleeding talent for years — as many lawyers fled out of disgust or to protect their own integrity — leaving the office ill-equipped to fight for the rights of our state against federal overreach.
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