An attorney for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday the Republican will not testify during his impeachment trial scheduled to start on Sept. 5.
In a statement released late Monday, Tony Buzbee, one of Paxton’s attorneys, bashed once again the Texas House’s move to impeach Paxton in late May, calling the 20 articles of impeachment against him “meritless.”
“That is why Attorney General Paxton will not dignify the illegal House action by testifying,” Buzbee said. “We will not bow to their evil, illegal, and unprecedented weaponization of state power in the Senate chamber.”
Paxton’s decision to not testify is a clear defiance of the impeachment trial rules the Texas Senate adopted last month.
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