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AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton continued Friday to blame his potential impeachment on partisan actors working in the Texas House, accusing members of the House of sabotage during
Less than a year into his first term, Paxton was charged with felony securities fraud. The Justice Department is investigating bribery allegations against him as a Texas House committee conducts its own probe into his behavior.
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republicans. let me start with what we re expecting in the next few hours. the 20 articles of impeachment are expected to go before the full texas house of representatives at about 1:00 p.m. local time. we re expecting about four hours of debate and a single majority is required for the articles to pass. there s 149 serving members right now, so a simple majority would be 75. you re probably wondering how are we even here. let me give you the back story. earlier this week there was explosive and stunning testimony before the texas house general investigating committee describing years of alleged wrongdoing by texas attorney general ken paxton related to a donor and related to a whistleblower lawsuit that ken paxton settled back in february for $3.3 million, obligating the texas taxpayer to pay that money. well, the texas house speaker,