GOP-led Texas House to vote Saturday on possible impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton

By ACACIA CORONADO, JIM VERTUNO and JAKE BLEIBERG
Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An investigating committee says the Texas House of Representatives will vote Saturday on whether to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton. The House Committee on General Investigating said in a statement Friday that the House will consider a resolution calling for Paxton’s impeachment at 1 p.m. Saturday. The GOP-led committee spent months quietly looking into Paxton and recommended Thursday that the state’s top lawyer be impeached on 20 articles including bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of public trust. The 60-year-old Republican has criticized the impeachment effort as an attempt to “overthrow the will of the people and disenfranchise the voters of our state.” He has said the charges are based on “hearsay and gossip, parroting long-disproven claims.”