Texas Attorney General had been suspended without pay following his impeachment in May, leaving him out of his $150,000 annual salary.
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Texas’ Republican-controlled state Senate voted to acquit Attorney General Ken Paxton, after the MAGA-aligned Republican’s high-profile impeachment in May on accusations of bribery and corruption, keeping Paxton in office following a tense impeachment trial that pitted Texas Republicans against one another.Key Facts
The Senate voted primarily along party lines to acquit Paxton on all 16 articles of impeachment against him, with the closest vote still falling seven votes shy of the 21 required to convict.
Among the impeachment articles, Paxton was acquitted on charges of improperly obtaining information for campaign donor and real estate investor Nate Paul, which had not been publicly disclosed, as well as for directing employees to not release public information about public safety records and for allegedly directing a state attorney to investigate a “baseless” complaint to “benefit” Paul.
