Ken Paxton, impeached in May, has been found not guilty of bribery and dereliction of duty and may resume office
After a dramatic impeachment trial that lasted more than a week, Ken Paxton, the ultraconservative Texas attorney general, has been acquitted and will be able to resume his work in elected office.
Paxton, who faced 16 articles of impeachment against him in this trial – involving bribery, dereliction of duty and disregard for official duty – and four more separately, avoided becoming Texas’s highest-ranking elected official to be removed from state office. The only two successful impeachments of Texas state officials were governor James “Pa” Ferguson in 1917 and a district judge in 1975.
