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Zach Despart and James Barragán, The Texas Tribune Defying a last-minute appeal by former President Donald Trump, the Texas House voted overwhelmingly Saturday to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, temporarily removing him from office over allegations of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. The vote to adopt the …

Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune For nearly a decade, Texas Republicans largely looked the other way as Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal problems piled up. That abruptly changed this week. In revealing it had been secretly investigating Paxton since March — and then recommending his impeachment on Thursday — a …

James Barragán, Robert Downen and Zach Despart, The Texas Tribune In an unprecedented move, a Texas House committee voted Thursday to recommend that Attorney General Ken Paxton be impeached and removed from office, citing a yearslong pattern of alleged misconduct and lawbreaking that investigators detailed one day earlier. During a …

The South Dakota House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to impeach Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over his actions before and after a fatal car crash in 2020 in which he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal. The final vote was 36 to 31. The …

By Rebekah Allen, The Texas Tribune Jan. 4, 2022 U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz predicted Republicans will impeach President Joe Biden as political payback if they win back the U.S. House this year in the midterm elections. “Yeah, I do think there’s a chance of that, whether it’s justified or not,” …

Nearly all of the seven Republican senators who voted to impeach Donald Trump are facing strong condemnation from their home states, with at least six facing or having already received official censures from their local GOP. The Republican Party of Louisiana’s leadership voted on Saturday to censure Bill Cassidy on …

Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the conclusion of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate:   “The Congress and Country can take great pride in the House Impeachment Managers, who defended our Constitution and our Democracy in the Senate with a moving and masterful presentation that demonstrated extraordinary …

Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial came to an end on Saturday after the Senate decided to acquit him on the charge of “incitement of insurrection” following the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol. The vote was 57-43. Every Democrat voted to find him “guilty,” the question technically before the Senate, …

The historic second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is coming to a close. Trump’s attorneys used just two and a half of their allotted sixteen hours to mount their defense of the former President. The main part of their presentation was a video spliced together of Democrats saying …

The historic second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump continues today. House Democrats closed their impeachment case against Trump on Thursday by linking his history of incendiary rhetoric and months-long campaign to undermine the November election to the statements of insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 Former …

The historic second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump has begun. On Wednesday House impeachment managers, led by lead manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, played violent video scenes of the Jan. 6 attack. Some of the footage was never seen before video from Capitol security cameras. The managers spent the …

The historic second Senate impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump has begun. Senators, sitting as jurors, will soon hear up to four hours of debate over whether the Constitution allows the chamber to try a president who has already left office. Watch Live:

Delegate Stacey Plaskett could not cast a vote on the House floor last month to impeach former President Donald Trump, although she agreed that he should have been impeached. Because Plaskett represents the Virgin Islands, a U.S. territory and not a state, she is one of 6 non-voting members of …

According to reporting from the New York Times, all five of the impeachment lawyers who were expected to represent former President Donald Trump have called it quits just before his trial is expected to start in the Senate next week. The legal team led by South Carolina lawyer Butch Bowers, resigned …

Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which starts on February 8, is a big security concern. 5,000 National Guard troops will remain in Washington D.C. through mid-March to protect the Capitol. The troops are remaining in the nation’s capital due to “impeachment security concerns.” Deployments have been extended in several National Guard …