On the way to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton becoming a rising figure in the GOP, his wife, Angela, used to entertain crowds with a guitar and a song.
“I will be presiding over that case and the senators - all 31 senators - will have a vote,” Patrick told WFAA-TV. “We’ll set the rules for that trial as we go forward and we’ll see how that develops.”
The state constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the chamber to convict. But there is little historic precedent in drafting impeachment trial rules, and nothing with a similar spousal conflict, Williams said.is just the third official to be impeached and the first statewide official impeached since Gov. James “Pa” Ferguson in 1917.out of the trial like there would be a criminal trial, Williams said.
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