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The state attorney general’s trial in the Senate has featured clashes between larger-than-life Texas lawyers with long histories, in court and with one another.

Republicans were not in agreement about whether they supported suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Republicans were not in agreement about whether they supported suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Watch the fifth day of the suspended Texas attorneys general trial in the state Senate here.

The first week of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton‘s history-making impeachment trial closed Friday with only four prosecution witnesses taking the stand in the first four days.

Both parties have about 14 1/2 hours left to present evidence, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said as the Texas Senate reconvened Sept. 11.

The trial resumes at 9 a.m. Monday and could be done by the end of the week. Jurors are expected to hear testimony on bribery allegations.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial neared the halfway point Friday, and is set to continue at 9 a.m. on Monday.

"Well, my initial reaction was, this is crazy," Penley said. "We hoped to slow walk it and see if the attorney general would drop it."

A second week of testimony got underway Monday morning in the impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.