ETA: @Atamasama two posts up.
A rogue prosecutor attacking a legislature using the power of a corrupt police force to do it?
Not a precedent I want to set while much of the country is cheering for a wannabe tyrant for President. One who fully intends to use the police and prosecutors under his control to consolidate power and settle scores.
But it would be great fun to watch on TV.
He’s getting off. Firing the whistleblowers was pretty clear cut and there wasn’t even a majority to convict.
The most likely first target of Paxton’s revenge will be Dade Phelan, Speaker of the Texas House, who was the driving force behind this impeachment. Certain to be portrayed as a RINO and worse.
Fortunately, Texas isn’t much of the country.
Otherwise we’d be in even more trouble.
They’ve made their bed. And by “them”, I mean the Republicans and those who voted for them.
Acquitted on all counts. Oh well.
Yeah, that was pretty much when i knew it was over, too. So disappointing. I am not familiar with most of the names of the Texas senators. Was the vote breakdown completely along party lines, or were there a few Republicans voting guilty on some counts?
Once again, the GOP has shown the fortitude of their spines, standing up for what is right over partisan affiliation!
Never mind!
There were only two Republican Senators (out of 19) who voted “aye” on any counts. Notably, both are Senators who have broken with Lt. Govenor Dan Patrick in the past. The unanimity with which the remaining Republican Senators voted “nay” strongly suggests that they were instructed to do so by Patrick.
I wonder if Texas got jealous that Florida has been getting all the attention as a nightmare hellhole of a state and needed to up its game.
At least we definitively know the answer to the immortal question:
Have you no shame, Sir?
It’s a shame, there are a couple of Republican Senators I have some mild respect for who’ve done good things on some niche issues. But Patrick will only let them work on things they care about if they’re slavishly loyal to his position on everything he cares about. Otherwise they find themselves pulled off committees, their bills dead, their donors not returning phone calls and a well-funded primary opponent knocking on their door.
Come back, Shame!
I just want to have Paxton hit them up for millions of dollars again, just to see what happens.
And this reinforces my earlier impression, that the broad supermajorities against the motions for dismissal were about both the opposition and the dominant majority faction wanting to make members be on record with a public vote on the specific charges, rather than any expectation of a conviction result.
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Things we see here IMO:
After seeing the crimes Paxton was charged with, I’m fully convinced that he, Abbott and Patrick cheated last November. We need a federal investigation of the 2022 Texas election.
My job deals with multiple time zones as an inherent part of the job. One thing it has taught me is that there are a surprising number of people who don’t understand the difference between Standard time and Daylight time.
Which is why I always use just “central time” or “eastern time” or equivalently “CT” & “ET”. Let the reader use the words (correct or incorrect) that they prefer about daylight-ness or not.
Except that is ambiguous, because there are jurisdictions in North America that are currently on CDT, and others that are on CST. If I’m trying to tune into something, it helps to have an unambiguous statement of time.
Texas observes Daylight Saving Time. All of Texas except about 2.5 counties in West Texas are currently on Central Daylight Time. El Paso County, Hudspeth County, and parts of Culberson County are currently on Mountain Daylight Time.