by Kyle Becker at The Politics Brief
“Members, I have just a few minutes of comments. About five minutes,” he said. “I’ve been unusually quiet for the last three months since the House of Representatives sent the articles of impeachment against Attorney General to us on very short notice in the final hours of the regular legislative session. The law requires the Senate to receive the articles and have a trial, and once I realized I would be the presiding officer and judge, I thought it was my duty to be quiet on this issue. Otherwise, how could I oversee a fair trial? I’ve done my very best to do so the last three months, especially the last two weeks. Now the trial is over. I want to take a few minutes before we close to put a few remarks in the court record for future legislatures to read in the event of another impeachment one day on both what the House and Senate did.”
“I’ve spent most of the last 90 days, as many of you have, preparing for this trial,” he added. “I’ve issued over 240 subpoenas. I’ve studied numerous motions, written multiple orders, read hundreds of pages of history, rules, documents, and worked on every detail of this trial with you and with our incredible Secretary of the Senate, the clerk of the court who turned this chamber into a courtroom and her great staff. I have had a total view of this process from the very first day, the House sent over the articles of impeachment to us in May.”
“With all due respect to the House, we didn’t need to be told in the final arguments how important this vote was,” he continued. “I believe the quote was, ‘this will… be the hardest and most difficult and the heaviest vote that you’ll ever cast in your time in the legislature.’ This vote will be the vote you’re remembered for most’.”
“Our members already knew that and have known that for the last three months,” he went on. “If only the House members who voted for impeachment would’ve followed that instruction in the house. We may not have been here. In the House, the vote to send the articles of impeachment against the Attorney General to the Senate happened in only a few days with virtually no time for 150 members to even study the articles.”
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Texas AG Ken Paxton Acquitted on 16 Impeachment Articles, He Will Immediately Return to Office
There are 12 Democrats and 19 Republicans in the Texas Senate. The majority of the article votes were 16 to 14 in favor of acquittal [SEE HERE].
As reflected throughout the impeachment trial, the majority of the accusations came from establishment “Bush” Republicans in Texas who hold tenuous power over the state Republican apparatus. All of the Democrats in the Texas Senate were more than willing to support the backroom Republican effort. However, attorney Tony Buzbee did a masterful job deconstructing the rumors and innuendo that surrounded the majority of the allegations…
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Tony Buzbee, lead attorney for Texas AG Ken Paxton, discusses the Paxton impeachment with Charlie Kirk
Buzbee goes into detail how the Bush clan was behind the entirety of this impeachment of AG Ken Paxton. Great interview…
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