Impeachment recommended for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
An impeachment vote of the full House could come as soon as this weekend and would force GOP lawmakers to decide whether to eject one of the state’s most prominent Republicans #politics
@Jezibaba I wonder what's changed...
@Ironworker229 “So what does that mean here? If a state official was impeached by the Texas House, they would be removed from office until after the Senate had held a trial and judged the House’s impeachment. It’s right there in the Texas Constitution: ‘All officers against whom articles of impeachment may be preferred shall be suspended from the exercise of the duties of their office, during the pendency of such impeachment. The governor may make a provisional appointment to fill a vacancy...
@Ironworker229 ... occasioned by the suspension of an officer until the decision on the impeachment.’”
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/16/ken-paxton-texas-impeachment/
@Ironworker229 Don’t mess with Texas
By Ross Ramsey: “Impeaching someone in Texas isn’t like impeaching someone in Washington, D.C. It’s rarer, for one thing, and it has immediate consequences in a way that the federal system does not. The person being impeached is removed from office while the case is pending in Texas; in the federal system, they remain in office unless convicted by the Senate.
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