Winner winner chicken dinner!
She’s so brave.
It’s a C&W song in the making!
Wouldn’t the kicker be if she voted against him?
Given her reputation as the actual brains behind the outfit, it would be a case of “you have failed me for the last time.”
(Force choke-out optional.)
She was his getaway driver when he fled his home to avoid being served with a subpoena. She’s ride or die for Ken Paxton, no matter how egregious or personally embarrassing his behavior may be.
Well-p, so much for my schadenfreude fantasies.
The Texas Senate just adopted the rules for the conduct of the impeachment trial by a vote of 25-3. Nothing’s public yet, but the rumor is the rules will force Angela Paxton to recuse herself from voting on the impeachment. The trial will begin on September 5.
Seems to be official.
Yep. Angela Paxton will be allowed to attend, but she cannot deliberate with the Senate in closed session or vote.
All-in-all, it looks like this will be a fair process. The House managers and Paxton will be able to call witnesses, who will be questioned publicly. The Senate will deliberate in closed session, then vote on the charges without debate or comment (although they can provide statements later that will be included in the record). It’s telling that the vote to adopt these rules was overwhelmingly bipartisan, and the three “no” votes came from a very liberal Senator, a very conservative Senator, and Angela Paxton herself.
BWA-ha-ha-ha-ha
Show of hands if anyone is surprised at this… 
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has promised maximum transparency in the impeachment trial for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton, but trial rules recently adopted by the Texas Senate came after an opaque process — and provide for plenty of secrecy going forward.
Any pretrial motions, including requests from Paxton’s legal team to toss out articles of impeachment, will be kept confidential.
A special committee of senators will review each pretrial motion behind closed doors and issue written recommendations for how it should be addressed, but those recommendations are to remain confidential as well.
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Even the witness list that each side must file before Aug. 22 will be kept from the public.
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The Senate approved the rules without public debate Wednesday night, following two days of closed-door deliberations over them. That came after a rule-making committee worked in secret for three weeks, drafting proposed rules without telling the public when and where they were meeting.
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My bold.
To quote the previous poster:
He promised maximum transparency, not total transparency.
Obviously, the maximum he can provide is very, very little.
Maximum transparency, so you can see all the murkiness.
Sounds like they don’t want Paxton spilling the beans on all the dirty secrets he’s got on them all.
Translucent.
In politics, the less you plan to do about something, the more you must talk about it.
I can understand the witness list being confidential, but the rest? Naw.
However, she WILL be counted as being present, which means instead of 20 (out of 29) votes to convict, they’ll need 21 (out of 30). So effectively, she’s a defacto “no” vote. Which is bullshit.
I have some sympathy with the rules writers here, because state law says that all Senators shall attend an impeachment court. You can’t really pretend like she isn’t there. Ultimately, though, regardless of what official rules are adopted, the outcome of this trial will be decided by one person – Dan Patrick. He rules the Senate with an iron fist, and Republican Senators (and frankly, many of the Democrats) have been rendered completely subservient to his wishes.
It’s not clear to me where Patrick will come down on this. On one hand, the Republican base – with whom he is usually closely aligned – strongly believe this impeachment is a huge injustice. On the other hand, Patrick is feuding with Greg Abbott in unusually personal terms right now over property tax cuts, and I could see him pushing Paxton’s removal just to show Abbott that he can and will remove a fellow Republican from office if he wants to.