Listen to Dan Patrick
Attorney General Ken Paxton (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File) Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick released rules for the upcoming Ken Paxton trial that includes a gag order for anyone involved.
That includes the Texas Senate’s 31 members as well as Paxton and his team. Several Democratic senators have expressed their distaste for Paxton.
But, like him or not, Paxton deserves a fair trial in the Senate and Democratic senators have stopped making public comments.
Paxton, however, hasn’t been abiding by the Senate’s rules. In his latest fundraising campaign — taking a page out of the Trump fundraising handbook of monetizing your indictments — Paxton called the impeachment “illegal” and trial a “kangaroo court.” And “blind loyalty to Speaker Dade Phelan is more important than upholding their oath of office,” Paxton’s fundraising material says about the Republican-controlled House of Representatives that overwhelmingly voted to impeach the Repubilcan attorney general.
