Texas Scorecard by Cary Cheshire May 26, 2023
Phelan is expanding his war on conservatives by launching an illegal impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Just days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan resign from office for being drunk on the job, Phelan’s lieutenants have announced plans to illegally impeach him.
On Thursday, General Investigating Committee Chairman Andrew Murr (R–Kerrville) filed an impeachment resolution against Paxton with 20 articles of impeachment with charges dating as far back as 2002.
Elected attorney general in 2014, Paxton has been an outspoken conservative—often leading coalitions of state attorneys general against the Obama and Biden administrations, defending the state’s pro-life and pro-family laws, and supporting the policies of President Donald Trump.
Paxton even took a case contesting the 2020 election to the U.S. Supreme Court—a move that drew sharp criticism from Texas Democrats who sought to defund his office and even initiated complaints against him with the Texas State Bar.
Unabashedly pro-Trump, Paxton had the support of the former president in his recent re-election campaign and already endorsed Trump in his current presidential campaign.
Numerous sources say Paxton is one of Trump’s top allies, but Trump doesn’t hold Phelan in high regard. Just last month, Trump blasted Phelan’s property tax relief plan and called him “California Dade.” Those comments came two years after Trump bashed Phelan by comparing him to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and accused him of having “weak RINO leadership.”
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