HAPPENING TODAY: The Texas Senate is set to meet late Tuesday morning to hear from a secretive seven-senator committee that was directed to create the rules to govern the impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton. (via TexasTribune)
On the final day of the regular legislative session in late May, senators created the committee, gave it permission to meet in private and directed it to return Tuesday to present rules of procedure for the full Senate to consider.
The House managers, who have hired Texas legal giants Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin to present the case against Paxton, sent the Senate committee 17 examples of rules that were used in past impeachment trials in Texas, including a recusal rule. Buzbee said in his first news conference as Paxton’s lead lawyer that the process of lining up witnesses and documents could take up to a year. And Paxton’s legal team argued in a memo to the committee that it should limit testimony to deposition statements, rather than allow live witnesses, which they said could turn the proceedings into “political theater.”Paxton’s permanent removal from office would require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
The former officials said Paxton directed agency employees to help Paul gain access to investigative records and that he drafted a legal opinion that helped Paul stall impending foreclosure sales on properties. Paxton also pushed the agency to hire an outside lawyer to harass Paul’s enemies, the officials said.
Their report set off an FBI investigation that was taken over by the U.S. Justice Department this year.
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