The GOP-led Texas House of Representatives on Saturday will take up a resolution to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to a memo from the committee that on Thursday filed 20 articles of impeachment against him.
that accused the Investigating Committee of asking the Texas House to"use their unsubstantiated report to overturn the results of a free and fair election." Chris Hilton, the attorney general's chief litigator, said Thursday that the state House could not move forward with impeachment for allegations that occurred before the last election. In Friday's memo, the House Investigating Committee said this so-called"forgiveness doctrine""does not apply to impeachment.
The 2023 Texas legislative session will end on May 29 — a date known as"sine die," or when all legislation must be sent to the governor's desk. Although normally only the governor can bring lawmakers back in a special session, theRepublicans hold a 19-12 majority in the Senate, and a two-thirds majority is needed to remove him from office. But according to the Texas state Constitution, if Paxton is impeached, he would be immediately suspended, pending the trial in the Senate.
The Senate has only expelled lawmakers twice, Gov. James Ferguson in 1917 and District Judge O.P. Carrillo in 1975. Former state Rep. Sherri Greenberg, assistant dean at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at University of Texas-Austin, on Friday called the impeachment"earth-shattering." "This has really set off a tidal wave," Greenberg said."It's rare, we've only seen a couple of times in Texas history, the impeachment of a public official."
The recommendation to bring articles of impeachment against Paxton came just weeks after the House of Representatives took the extraordinary step of
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