WaPo: “The 20 articles of impeachment leveled against Paxton by a House investigating committee in May included allegations of bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of public trust. It marked only the third time in Texas’s nearly 200-year history that a state official had been impeached.
Paxton has castigated Republicans who voted to impeach him as being in “lockstep” with the Biden administration, abortion providers and gun-control advocates. While taken up by his supporters, the accusation underscores how much of the dispute is about power, not policy — many of those same Republicans helped pass an abortion law that effectively outlawed most instances of the procedure before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, as well as bills banning critical race theory and allowing Texans to carry guns without permits….
Hogg cast the GOP divisions as between archconservatives and “a more radical element.” But, he added, “I’m realistic enough and have been around Texas politics long enough to know that doesn’t mean the Senate will convict.”
Many conservative activists were frustrated to see Republican state lawmakersmarshal forces against Paxton instead of fighting for causes the attorney general built his reputation defending, said Tim Hardin, the Fort Worth-based chief executive of the advocacy group Texans for Fiscal Responsibility.”