More Bush Ties to Paxton Impeachment RevealedAUSTIN — As the trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton continues its second week, more details about the role George P. Bush allegedly played in the impeachment effort have come to light.
Paxton’s defense team has advanced the theory that a Bush political network has worked for years to oust the attorney general, as reported by
The Dallas Express.During cross-examination, it was noted that disgruntled employees of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) went to the FBI on September 30 regarding potential unlawful conduct by Paxton. The very next day, Bush reactivated his law license after a 10-year hiatus.
Furthermore, many of the whistleblowers had retained Bush-affiliated lawyer Johnny Sutton to represent them in the matter. However, during the trial, it was revealed that Sutton had not charged them over the course of three years and that fees had hardly been discussed.
Ryan Vassar explained, “He has agreed to bill us at a future date.”
Sutton was the criminal justice policy director for George P. Bush’s uncle, George W. Bush while the latter served as the governor of Texas. Sutton also led the Department of Justice transition team for George W. Bush after he was elected president.
Bush then named Sutton associate deputy attorney general before appointing him as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, a position he held from November 2001 to April 2009.
Sutton also notoriously prosecuted several border patrol agents while acting as a U.S. attorney, apparently giving drug traffickers legal immunity in order to secure the agents’ convictions. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) claimed Sutton had a “prosecutorial over-reaction” following a congressional hearing on the subject in 2007.
“You weren’t going after cartels in this case,” the senator said. “You were going after Border Patrol agents.”
Throughout the case, Sutton was “vigorously supported” by President George W. Bush, while congressmen called the prosecutions “the worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen,” per the Washington Times. Bush eventually commuted the agents’ sentences in 2009, but President Donald Trump actually pardoned them in 2020...
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