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The Texas Senate voted Wednesday to begin the historic impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton on Sept. 5, and it approved rules that bar Paxton’s wife from voting due to a conflict of interest.

The State Senator wife of impeached TX AG Ken Paxton, who refused to recuse herself from his trial, will now be forced to listen to the evidence of how he accepted gifts benefiting his mistress, but won’t be allowed to vote to save her beloved husband.

Kendra wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:29 am

The State Senator wife of impeached TX AG Ken Paxton, who refused to recuse herself from his trial, will now be forced to listen to the evidence of how he accepted gifts benefiting his mistress, but won’t be allowed to vote to save her beloved husband.

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:01 pm I have a hard time picturing him with an alleged paramour, based on his um doughy, lipless physical presence. And wtf Mrs AG? Do you have no self respect at all? I wouldn’t be present for any of it. I suspect it’s about power for her, too.

'Clear, compelling and decisive': The impeachment case against Texas' Ken Paxton just got help from an unlikely source

Harriet O’Neill, a Republican former justice on the Texas Supreme Court, has joined the team of lawyers who will be prosecuting suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton during his Senate impeachment trial.

O’Neill, who served 12 years on the state’s highest civil court before stepping down in 2010, is an accomplished attorney who also served as a state district judge and as a justice on the Houston-based 14th Court of Appeals. In 2002 and 2006, she was named the appellate justice of the year by the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists.

O’Neill said she was proud to join the legal team, which also includes prominent Houston lawyers Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin, assembled by House impeachment managers to present the legal case for impeachment in a trial before the Texas Senate to begin Sept. 5.

“The facts in this case are clear, compelling and decisive, and I look forward to presenting them before the members of the Texas Senate,” she said in a statement.

Legendary Texas lawyers Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin will serve as lead prosecutors for the state House in the Senate impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The two Houston-based defense attorneys, introduced at a Capitol news conference Thursday, are legal icons in their own right, having separately represented a litany of high-profile athletes, celebrities and politicians in criminal and civil investigations.

“They are outstanding lawyers and lions of the Texas trial bar,” said David Coale, a Dallas-based appellate lawyer and legal commentator. “This is the legislature saying, ‘This isn’t just some case, this is an unusual, historic case.’ And if you want to make some history, you get some history book-level lawyers.”

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 4:19 pm I can’t believe something is actually going to finally happen to Paxton. I’m so happy I could cry.

bob wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 6:26 pm Hardin did represent Clemens, who was found not guilty on all counts.