AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton will not be paid while awaiting a Senate impeachment trial, according to the State Comptroller’s Office. Paxton’s $153,750 ...
GOP-led House impeached him
and effectively suspended the third-term Republican from the job. An exact date hasn’t been set, but the Senate will begin a trial on whether to remove Paxton from office no later than August 28. “No salary payment may occur to Attorney General Warren Kenneth Paxton while in a suspended status,” Rob Coleman, director of the fiscal management division,Gov. Greg Abbott named Scott, the former secretary of state and a Fort Worth attorney, to
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