Texas´ GOP-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 fellow Republican who rose to be a star of the conservative legal movement despite years of scandal and alleged crimes.The vote triggers Paxton´s immediate suspension from office pending the outcome of a trial in the state Senate and empowers Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to appoint someone else as Texas´ top lawyer in the interim.The vote constitutes an abrupt downfall for one of the ´s most prominent legal combatants, who in 2020 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn President ´s electoral defeat of . It makes Paxton only the third sitting official in Texas´ nearly 200-year history to have been impeached.
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