texas repubs impeach paxton, suspend him immediately

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Texas House votes to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton
Texas' House of Representatives voted to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton, triggering his immediate suspension from office.

 

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WOW... he must really really be a bad dude!! They will now put him up for President!

 

[Lazaran]

Texas House votes to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton
Texas' House of Representatives voted to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton, triggering his immediate suspension from office.

jaF0’s gonna throttle you.

 

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jaF0’s gonna throttle you.

i keep forgetting the name of his other thread and when i type in ken paxton it doesn't show. i've not the energy to go hunting for it further. Perhaps he'll change the title or bump it with the news. Been out for hours weeding and then came in and made a ton of devilled eggs. I just wanna go to sleep because my head's complaining it's gonna storm but it's not supposed to

 

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WOW... he must really really be a bad dude!! They will now put him up for President!

he's not doing anything much different to what he did before, except his latest moves would have had the GOPers on record supporting his crimes and they couldn't be that brazen

 

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Republicans are greasy bastards.

 

[Chernosoth]

Texas is legally a US state, but it is more Mexican in character.

 

[Bray123]

After three years Texas takes immediate action.

The power grid has deliberately been kept separate from the rest of the US to enable a third war of insurrection. There are plenty of people there who are upset that it hasn't happened already.

 

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and he slides...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/new...1&cvid=5acdf93a5d4447bfd716faa1338f35b9&ei=13

“It is unfortunate that the outcome of this process will ultimately relinquish control of the state’s top law enforcement agency to an individual who, I believe, clearly abused his power, compromised his agency and its employees, and moved mountains to protect and benefit himself,” Phelan said.

Patrick told senators that they must individually vote on 16 separate articles of impeachment and whether prosecutors proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Paxton was guilty of them.

“Even if a member believes the house managers have proven every element of an argument beyond the reasonable doubt, the member may only sustain the article if they also believe Attorney General Paxton should be removed from office based on that article,” Patrick said.

Far-right Republicans had threatened to back primary candidates against sitting GOP senators who voted to convict Paxton.

Sen. Nathan Johnson, a Democrat who voted to convict Paxton on some charges and acquit him on others, said the political pressures solidified votes from his Republican colleagues who were leaning toward acquittal.

“Once enough of them go there and it becomes a foregone result,” Johnson said.

 

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Jason Ravnsborg has a long record of traffic violations, and killed a pedestrian in a hit&run. He got off with a moderate fine, no prison time, and managed to keep his license. But they still impeached him and barred him from holding office.

 

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Texas is legally a US state, but it is more Mexican in character.

Please explain in detail.

 

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Please explain in detail.

They don’t eat chili with beans.

 

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They don’t eat chili with beans.

That's probably more detail than the fatalist would provide.

 

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It’s looking like the GOP in Texas is going to tear itself apart.

 

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and he slides...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/new...1&cvid=5acdf93a5d4447bfd716faa1338f35b9&ei=13






“Once enough of them go there and it becomes a foregone result,” Johnson said.

He was acquitted because the Uniparty in the Texas House tried to do to him what Democrats did to Trump. They brought charges without evidence. In their impeachment inquiry, they took no testimony under oath, they did not allow Paxton's defense team to cross-examine witnesses making allegations against him. He was not allowed to put on a defense against House charges before the impeachment vote which was contrary to the precedents set in the only other two impeachments in their history. They presented hearsay evidence and testimony unsupported by oath to the Senate and the Paxton defense team simply took their witnesses apart like clocks on the stand. After the vote Lt. Governor Dan Patrick made a statement in which he excoriated the House managers. You can read it in full here. You'll get a picture of why this impeachment failed:

https://www.khou.com/article/news/s...ment/285-a5161733-85a9-4a55-80ed-af5551fab25a