Texas attorney general is no lone star despite legal woes
Trump ally Ken Paxton's controversial 'legal warfare' style has worked in the culture wars
As I headed to Texas from Arizona, the very Republican state certainly had that orange guy’s very defiant, attack-attack-attack politics on its mind.
Soon after Donald Trump’s May 24 rally in Dallas, Texas prepared for the impeachment of its Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton (lunchtime, May 27).
Reader, lawmakers in the Texas House voted to impeach him after a four-hour proceeding before a packed gallery. It must come as a shock to Texas, where a statewide office holder has not been impeached in more than a century.
The right in Texas has been getting all riled up about it. Mr Paxton is a Trump ally and a bipartisan but Republican-led committee of representatives in the Republican-dominated Texas House recommended he be impeached for a number of abuses that may have been crimes.
The case against Mr Paxton matters — to much more than Texas.
As Texas’s top law enforcement officer, Mr Paxton has styled himself as chief …
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