The House Committee on General Investigating said in a statement Friday that the House will consider a resolution calling for Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Paxton has criticized the impeachment effort as an attempt to “overthrow the will of the people and disenfranchise the voters of our state.” He has said the charges are based on “hearsay and gossip, parroting long-disproven claims.”
First will come the House vote, where the investigation panel proposed at least 40 minutes to lay out the charges against Paxton and four hours for the members to debate. “We cannot over-emphasize the fact that, but for Paxton’s own request for a taxpayer-funded settlement over his wrongful conduct, Paxton would not be facing impeachment by the House,” the panel wrote in its scheduling memo to House members.
Unlike in Congress, impeachment in Texas requires immediate removal from office until a trial is held in the Senate. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott could appoint an interim replacement. Abbott’s office did not respond to requests for comment on the impeachment counts. Even with Monday’s end of the regular session approaching, state law allows the House to keep working on impeachment proceedings. It also could call itself back into session later. The Senate has the same options.
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GOP-led Texas House to vote Saturday on possible impeachment of state Attorney General Ken PaxtonAn investigating committee says the Texas House of Representatives will vote Saturday on whether to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton. The House Committee on General Investigating said in a statement Friday that the House will consider a resolution calling for Paxton’s impeachment at 1 p.m. Saturday. The GOP-led committee spent months quietly looking into Paxton and recommended Thursday that the state’s top lawyer be impeached on 20 articles including bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of public trust. The 60-year-old Republican has criticized the impeachment effort as an attempt to “overthrow the will of the people and disenfranchise the voters of our state.” He has said the charges are based on “hearsay and gossip, parroting long-disproven claims.”
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