BREAKING: Lawmakers voted to oust Ken Paxton on 20 articles of impeachment, which included bribery, unfitness for office, and abuse of public trust.
, on Saturday—just days after investigators levied wide-ranging corruption allegations against the state’s top lawyer.
Lawmakers voted to oust Paxton on 20 articles of impeachment, which included bribery, unfitness for office, and abuse of public trust. “Hopefully Republicans in the Texas House will agree that this is a very unfair process that should not be allowed to happen or proceed,” TrumpPaxton, a staunch conservative who was elected to be Texas’ top prosecutor three times, has been combative in his response to the litany of allegations he faces—characterizing Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan as a “liberal” who wants to “sabotage” his work.
One allegation is that Paxton used his office to assist real-estate developer Nate Paul, a donor, who supposedly turned around and remodeled Paxton’s home and hired his mistress in return.
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