When she arrived at the Texas Capitol on Wednesday, it seemed a certainty that the alleged mistress of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton would take the stand as a star witness in the impeachment trial against him, but prosecutors' dreams were dashed when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said she was "deemed unavailable to testify."
Immediately afterward, Paxton's attorneys pushed for a motion that, if successful, would have effectively tossed all impeachment charges against Paxton.
The historic impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton is underway in the Texas Senate. He faces 16 articles of impeachment that accuse him of misusing the powers of the attorney general’s office to help his friend and donor Nate Paul, an Austin real estate investor who was under federal investigation.
As the impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton winds down, lawyers for the three-term Republican opened their defense by calling two senior staffers who have stuck by the suspended attorney general. Each testified Paxton didn’t use his power to withhold records.