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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton now will be suspended from his duties, pending a trial in the Texas Senate.

The House voted 121-23 to suspend the attorney general and refer him to the Senate for trial on charges of bribery, abuse of office and obstruction. It was the first such impeachment since 1975.

Hstoric vote came after a monthslong investigation that resulted in 20 charges alleging sweeping abuses of power

The 121-23 vote included overwhelming Republican support.

Texas’ Republican-led House of Representatives impeached state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday on articles including bribery and abuse of public trust, a sudden, historic rebuke of a GOP official who rose to be a star of the conservative legal movement despite years of scandal and alleged crimes.

Paxton has been under FBI investigation for years over accusations that he used his office to help a donor

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been impeached by fellow Republicans in a historic vote in the Texas House. He will immediately and temporarily be suspended from his duties.

AUSTIN — A majority of the Texas House voted to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, on Saturday. He will be suspended from office until a trial is held

The Texas House voted overwhelmingly Saturday to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, temporarily removing him from office.

The historic impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is plunging Republicans into a bruising fight over whether to banish one of their own in America’s biggest red state