Texas Senate expected to consider rules Tuesday for Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial
State Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference at the Houston Recovery Center on October 26, 2021. Paxton was temporarily suspended from office after the House voted last month to impeach him., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Members of the committee have not publicly discussed their work in the three weeks since, but that has not stopped Paxton’s allies and the House impeachment managers fromPaxton’s legal team, led by boisterous Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, has urged the committee to recommend rules that would allow the Senate to toss out the House-approved articles of impeachment, calling the procedure a “kangaroo court” because Paxton was not given the opportunity to defend himself.
Buzbee said in his first news conference as Paxton’s lead lawyer that the process of lining up witnesses and documents
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