The Texas Senate on Tuesday rejected all of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him, moving forward with the first removal proceeding against a statewide elected official in more than a century.

The pretrial motions required a majority vote. The most support a motion to dismiss received was 10 out of 30 senators.

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    As someone who live in Texas for thirty years, I am genuinely shocked that the Texas GOP has managed to find someone who is too corrupt even, for them. I wouldn’t have said that was possible.

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      I wouldn’t be surprise to find out this is some kind of attempt to scapegoat him and draw the eyes away from the rest of their corruption. That’s just the cynic in me thinking out loud though.

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        No, this is almost definitely it.

        Tech companies are already done with texas’s shit with a lot of the companies that tried to shift to texas going back to states where they have working power and their staff aren’t stressed out over human rights violations.

        And just look at desantis and the other losers. trump style “masks off” bigotry only really works for trump. Everyone else loses interest pretty fast and start looking at “moderate” republicans. Which is an increasing concern as texas shifts to “purple”. Because texas is not going to elect anyone competent. But they might elect a sinema-esque DINO

        So throw a few people under the bus and use that to make people believe “it is getting better” as you continue to smear shit on yourself.

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        I think it’s simpler.

        As things are in Texas right now, anyone he is replaced with will be a conservative republican. There is zero political risk to republicans in removing him. His only constituency within the party is the furthest right loons… but they tend to abandon “losers” quickly and will happily latch onto the newest far right loon. All while keeping him around does represent a political cost to republicans. That cost has gotten high enough that they’re willing to consider removing him.

        They can remove him with no risk to their power and get rid of a headache at the same time.

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      The tipping point is that he tried to get the party to pay for the coverup for his crimes. He was spending their money instead of raking it in, and they decided to turn off the tap.

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      It’s been due (indicted years ago on fraud), but he managed to piss off his own party. It’s rare to see the modern GOP go after one of their fellow ® bearing brothers.

      I wonder what he did because he was a good sock puppet for the GOP.

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    There’s a lesson here for the people who want to use Trumpiness to attain political power: if you’re not actually Trump, it won’t work.

    Whatever “it” is, Trump has “it.” It’s to the extreme detriment of our entire nation and world, but there we are. Ken Paxton definitely doesn’t have “it.” I haven’t seen any sparkle of “it” in the other 2024 Presidential candidates (from either party).

    The problem with trying to be Trump but not is that whatever deviation one makes will alienate Trump’s cult and reveal the weakness of Trumpism from a political point of view for traditional Republican politicians. They’ll turn on fake Trumps instantly.

    I don’t know if Trump is going to go down for his crimes, but a lot of his crew will be, because none of them have whatever “it” is. I hope that the juries will take their job seriously and ignore any non fact based stuff from Trump. Who knows. Twelve is a lot of people…

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    Havent been following this, Im sure the article will clear up what the impeachment’s about

    The House impeached Paxton in May, alleging a yearslong pattern of lawbreaking and misconduct.

    thank you Texas Tribune for clearing that up.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Texas Senate on Tuesday rejected all of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him, moving forward with the first removal proceeding against a statewide elected official in more than a century.

    Those senators were Pete Flores of Pleasanton, Kelly Hancock of North Richland Hills, Joan Huffman of Houston, Mayes Middleton of Galveston, Robert Nichols of Jacksonville and Drew Springer of Muenster.

    That motion struck at the heart of one of Paxton’s main arguments — that he cannot be impeached for any actions he allegedly took before he was reelected last year.

    He was immediately suspended from his job and the Senate trial, which started at 9 a.m. Tuesday, will determine whether he is permanently removed from office.

    A simple majority was required to approve them, and Paxton’s team challenged all articles of impeachment both individually and altogether.

    Notably, Patrick granted Paxton’s motion that prevents the suspended attorney general from being forced to testify in the trial.


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