A timeline of events that led to the acquittal of three-term Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton during his impeachment trial in the state Senate.
The prosecution accidentally rested its case early Wednesday after Ken Paxton’s defense team staved off the public testimony from a woman with whom the.
When she arrived at the Texas Capitol on Wednesday, it seemed a certainty that the alleged mistress of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton would take the stand as a star witness in the impeachment trial against him, but prosecutors' dreams were dashed when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said she was "deemed unavailable to testify."
Two pretrial motions that would have blocked the Ken Paxton impeachment proceedings from continuing were voted against by Texas senators from both parties Tuesday.