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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. American politician and lawyer Ken Paxton Paxton in 2024 51st Attorney General of Texas Incumbent Assumed office January 5, 2015 Suspended: May 27, 2023 – September 16, 2023 [a] Governor Rick Perry Greg Abbott Preceded by Greg Abbott Member of the Texas Senate from the 8th district In ...
The accusations propelled a historic impeachment in the Texas House, where Paxton once served. But in the Texas Senate — where Paxton's wife, Angela Paxton, is one of 19 GOP senators — he was ...
Her husband was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives as the Attorney General of Texas on May 27, 2023. When Paxton declined to recuse herself from the trial, she was barred by the Texas Senate from voting on her husband's impeachment. [1] [5] [6] The impeachment trial began on September 5, 2023, in the 31-member Texas Senate. Ken ...
Sep. 16—Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been acquitted by the state Senate on all charges of improper behavior in his official duties. He was supported by a bloc of 16 Republican senators ...
A grand jury in Collin County, Paxton's home turf, indicted him in 2015 on three felonies, charging that Paxton, then a state senator from McKinney, had defrauded investors in a tech company by ...
This list consists of American politicians convicted of crimes either committed or prosecuted while holding office in the federal government.It includes politicians who were convicted or pleaded guilty in a court of law; and does not include politicians involved in unprosecuted scandals (which may or may not have been illegal in nature), or politicians who have only been arrested or indicted.
Texas state Sen. Brian Birdwell acting as a juror votes on the articles of impeachment against suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol, Saturday ...
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