Top Texas Official Faces Career-Ending Karma – He Faces Stiff Punishment for Trying to Impeach the AG
What’s Happening:
Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted of impeachment charges. The entire saga shocked the conservative state, as a Republican-led state House turned on its own AG. Paxton claimed that the Biden administration had a hand in the impeachment. Two lawyers investigating him worked for Biden’s Department of Justice.
But the entire impeachment controversy was spearheaded by House Speaker Dade Phelan. Paxton accused the Republican lawmaker of being a “liberal” and working with the Biden administration to try to take him down. Now that the impeachment has failed, it appears the Texas Senate Republicans have some answer for Phelan. And they just made a move that will have the Texan worried.
From The Post Millennial:
At the Texas Senate Republican Executive Committee (SREC) meeting on Saturday, GOP leadership voted 58-2 on a resolution that called for Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan…
“Speaker Dade Phelan ignored or actively undermined several GOP priorities during the regular session…”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also called for Phelan to resign in a post on X. “In May, I called on liberal Speaker