Turmoil in Texas as GOP-led Legislature Votes To Impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton

Mr. Paxton said he has “full confidence” as he awaits judgment from the state Senate.

Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman via AP
Stephanie Lucie, right, and Lynn Tozser protest in favor of impeaching Attorney General Ken Paxton at the Texas Capitol. Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman via AP

The historic impeachment of the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, plunged Republicans on Sunday into a fight over whether to banish one of their own in America’s biggest red state after years of scandal and criminal accusations that will now be at the center of a trial in the state Senate.

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