Senators begin deliberating in private after defense lawyers and impeachment managers make impassioned pleas after two weeks of trial.
Senators are led onto the Senate floor at the beginning of the ninth day of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial at the Capitol on Friday.The prosecution and defense made their closing arguments Friday morning in the impeachment trial of Attorney GeneralThe House impeachment managers insisted that they proved their claims of bribery and corruption, arguing that the jury of 30 senators had no choice but to convict.
The closing arguments ended a nine-day trial during which the House called 13 witnesses and the defense called four. The case is now in the hands of senators. Conviction on any of the 16 articles of impeachment would permanently remove Paxton from office. “The travesty is that Mr. Paxton’s desire to deliver results for Nate Paul eventually tore the office apart,” Murr said. “Ken Paxton abandoned and betrayed his trusted and knowledgeable staff, his conservative principles and his commitment to family values, the law and his oath of office.”
“What we have seen is a bunch of suppositions — mights, maybes, could have beens,” Buzbee said. “That’s what we’ve seen in this trial.”
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