The Texas House has overwhelmingly voted to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton. He has become only the third elected official in Texas history to be impeached.
reported. It unanimously recommended that the attorney general be impeached and removed from office.
“That’s a pretty comprehensive list of concerns that are alarming to hear,” the panel’s chairman, Rep. Andrew Murr, R-Junction,Rep. Charlie Geren, R-Fort Worth, said on Saturday that Paxton personally called lawmakers, “threatening them with political consequences in their next election” if they did not vote against impeachment.
Paxton was not invited to speak before the House.
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