The Senate on Tuesday is meeting to discuss rules for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s historic impeachment trial. The rules will set the tone for the...
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who as Senate president will preside over the trial, said Monday that the rules would be released this week. He called them “complex” and promised “full transparency.”
“We have to write rules for the trial. There’s some precedent, some law, but it’s 100 years old. So we’ll have to map this out,” Patrick told conservative radio host Mark Davis. He also said that while Paxton’s lawyers have asked for the impeachment to be disposed of quickly, legally the Senate must take up the issue.A statewide official in Texas has not been impeached for more than 100 years; the last impeachment proceedings in the Senate took place in 1975.
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