Impeachment

With Ken Paxton awaiting his impeachment trial, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has appointed a onetime Trump attorney to take his place. John Scott, Abbott announced on Wednesday, will serve as interim attorney general. Abbott also appointed Scott to be interim secretary of state in 2021. He left that post…

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The embattled AG faces 20 articles of impeachment, including bribery and abuse of public trust It’s Memorial Day weekend, when ostensibly the U.S. puts aside its differences and unites to pay respect to military members who died while serving the country. This weekend, however, a segment of the right wing…

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

Republicans are bitterly divided ahead of Saturday afternoon's impeachment proceedings against Ken Paxton, Texas's scandal-hit GOP attorney general. Paxton, who has been accused of a range of offenses including abusing his office to help an Austin real estate investor who donated $25,000 to his campaign, has urged his supporters to…

National Republicans sparred over the future of conservative Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as a GOP statehouse majority seeks to impeach him over corruption allegations. A state House committee on Thursday unanimously voted to recommend Paxton be impeached and removed from office over years of alleged improprieties ranging from 2015…

A prominent Philadelphia attorney and onetime Trump impeachment lawyer says he can’t stand to represent Rudy Giuliani any longer—insinuating in a court filing that Giuliani isn’t just impossible to work with, but he’s a cheapskate who refuses to pay. The allegations emerged Friday in a motion filed by Bruce Castor…

For the past two weeks, in a courtroom in lower Manhattan, the journalist E. Jean Carroll has made a straightforward case: a quarter century ago, she says, Donald Trump raped her. The account she gave in the courtroom was the same as it has been since she first revealed this…