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The Texas Tribune reports:
The Texas Senate on Tuesday rejected all of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him, moving forward with the first removal proceeding against a statewide elected official in more than a century.
The rapid-fire series of votes on 16 pretrial motions made clear that senators want to at least hear the evidence against Paxton before deciding his fate. And the vote counts provided an early gauge of how willing GOP senators may be to remove a fellow Republican from statewide office.
The pretrial motions required a majority vote, but the most support a motion to dismiss received was 10 out of 30 senators — all Republicans — and that motion sought to throw out a single article.
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Twelve Republicans joined all Senate Democrats in the vote to essentially move forward with a trial. Paxton then pleaded not guilty to all 16 articles of impeachment. https://t.co/BzN4ybZPLE
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) September 5, 2023
Paxton skips out on opening comments at his Texas Senate impeachment trial. So the lawyers huddled to discuss.
The rules said he had to be at the trial at 9am. But the rules didn’t say he had to stay all day.
This says a lot about how much Ken Paxton cares about the trial. pic.twitter.com/xApvoKhQBI
— CollinCountyDemocrats (@CollinDems) September 5, 2023