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UPDATED: Texas House to begin impeachment hearing at 1 p.m. Saturday

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The Texas House Investigating Committee today voted unanimously to recommend Attorney General Ken Paxton, pictured, be impeached and removed from office UPDATE: The Texas House General Investigating Committee has just announced that the hearing on whether to impeach Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will begin at 1 p.m.

tomorrow (Saturday, May 27). The hearing is expected to last four hours. The House needs only a simple majority vote to impeach Paxton.

If he is impeached, the matter then moves to the Texas Senate for trial. The Senate, if it chooses to hold a trial, needs a two-thirds vote to convict. Texas law requires that the minute the impeachment process begins against a state official, that individual is immediately suspended from their office and remains suspended until the process is complete.

If that person is eventually cleared, they can return to their office. If the Senate votes to convict, they are removed from office permanently. ORIGINAL POST: The Texas House General Investigating Committee voted unanimously today (Thursday, May 25) to recommend that Attorney General Ken Paxton be impeached and removed from office.

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