Following the Senate’s historic acquittal of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Saturday turned a flamethrower on the House and its...
Also, House members must have at least two weeks to consider impeachment, not hurry it through as they did in May, Patrick said.“Had they done these two things in May, this trial may never have happened,” Patrick said.
Phelan said Patrick was “confessing his bias and placing his contempt for the people’s House on full display.”“Today’s outcome appears to have been orchestrated from the start, cheating the people of Texas of justice,” the speaker said.Patrick hadn’t made any substantive comments on whether the House’s charges had merit until Saturday. The three-term lieutenant governor, 73, noted that he wanted his thoughts on the trial preserved on the record for posterity.
“It was always going to be an uphill struggle to get school choice passed in the special session, given the resistance in the House,” said Rice University’s Mark Jones. “Today’s events probably pushed that into the category of next to impossible.”
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