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The Texas Tribune reports:
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick broke his personal silence Saturday on Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment after the Senate voted for acquittal, blasting the House’s impeachment process as deeply flawed. “The speaker and his team rammed through the first impeachment of a statewide official in Texas in over 100 years while paying no attention to the precedent that the House set in every other impeachment before,” Patrick said from the dais after the verdict was finalized.
House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, fired back, saying Patrick ended the trial by “confessing his bias and placing his contempt for the people’s House on full display.” Phelan added, “His tirade disrespects the Constitutional impeachment process afforded to us by the founders of this great state the inescapable conclusion is that today’s outcome appears to have been orchestrated from the start, cheating the people of Texas of justice.”
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The jury has spoken.
Attorney General Ken Paxton received a fair trial as required by the Texas Constitution.
I look forward to continuing to work with the Attorney General to secure the border and protect Texas from federal overreach. pic.twitter.com/OQo0XHIVWj
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 16, 2023
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: “In the next regular session we should amend the [Texas] constitution on the issue of impeachment [that] is currently written that allowed this flawed process to happen.” pic.twitter.com/a0ah8oeM6E
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 16, 2023
While criticizing the House’s impeachment process, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he is going to call for a “full audit of all taxpayer money spent by the House from the beginning of their investigation in March to their final bills they get from their lawyers.” pic.twitter.com/hFKaScySxS
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 16, 2023