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Paxton prosecutors blame politics for trumping evidence in attorney general’s impeachment trial

Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin said his team was naive in its belief that “principle would win out over politics.”

The Texas Tribune

Ken Paxton’s prosecutors stumbled at times. But did it matter in the GOP-dominated Senate?

The House impeachment managers faced a high bar: convincing enough Republican senators to vote against their own political self-interest.

The Texas Tribune

Ken Paxton impeachment defense rests after calling 4 witnesses

Senators will hear closing arguments beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, after which they will deliberate in private before emerging to cast votes on whether the attorney general can remain in office.

The Texas Tribune

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The House has rested its case against Ken Paxton after a chaotic day for the prosecution

The House prosecutors failed to call a star witness and battled with the defense attorneys over allegations the suspended attorney general had been bribed by Nate Paul.

The Texas Tribune

Ken Paxton’s lawyer attacks allegation that home renovation was a bribe

Drew Wicker, Paxton’s former personal assistant, testified at Paxton’s impeachment trial that his boss used four cell phones and ditched his security to meet with Nate Paul. But Wicker also provided Paxton’s lawyer with a chance to attack a central bribery allegation.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused of years of misconduct

The allegations have already triggered a federal investigation of the attorney general

The Independent UK

Ken Paxton dismissed House investigators as partisan Democrats. Their backgrounds suggest otherwise.

A Texas Tribune review of the investigators’ employment history, voting records and campaign donations found a lack of support for the attorney general’s claim.

The Texas Tribune

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Investigators: Paxton abused power as AG

Paxton broke laws, misspent funds and misused power to benefit a donor, investigators testify

Salon

Texas AG Ken Paxton misused office to help donor, House ethics investigators say

AUSTIN — A team of investigators released sweeping findings of its legislative ethics probe into years of alleged criminal conduct by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Tribune News Service

Investigators detail years of alleged misconduct by Texas AG Ken Paxton in stunning House committee hearing

Many allegations against Paxton were already known, but the airing of them revealed the scope of the investigation by the committee, which has the power to recommend censure or impeachment.

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