Here’s when the Texas House will take up Articles of Impeachment against AG Ken Paxton
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The Texas House of Representatives is expected to take up articles of impeachment against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at 1 p.m. Saturday, according to a memo obtained by the Star-Telegram.
The articles of impeachment came out Thursday night, just hours after a House committee investigating Paxton recommended his impeachment. He would be the third official in Texas history to be impeached and the first since 1975.
Paxton has been under felony indictment for securities fraud since 2015, but has not gone to trial in the case. Separately, the FBI is investigating him for allegedly abusing his office to aid a campaign contributor, real estate investor Nate Paul, the Associated Press reported. The former employees who reported him to the FBI for corruption also filed a whistleblower lawsuit.
The committee, it was revealed Tuesday, had been investigating Paxton for months after he agreed to settle that lawsuit with $3.3 million in taxpayer dollars. Money for the settlement is subject to legislative approval.
