From New York Times, I'm Michael Ababaro.

This is Adelaide.

Today, since 2016, the cardinal role of Republican politics has been to defend Donald Trump

and his allies at all costs, no matter what the allegation.

So why did Republican lawmakers in Texas just break that rule by voting to impeach the

state's far right attorney general?

My colleague, David Goodman, explains.

It's Wednesday, May 31st.

And David just to begin, remind us what Ken Paxson represents to national Republicans

across the country.

Well, really, Ken Paxson has made himself into a kind of hero of the right.

At this point, he's really seen as probably the most effective and certainly the most aggressive

of the Republican attorney generals in the country because of the lawsuits that he's

been filing over his now three terms in office.

He's part of a conservative legal movement that really is hoping and aggressively trying

to use the law to pursue policy goals.

Another day, another lawsuit on Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson filed a new

one against the federal government.

He's filed lawsuit after lawsuit, going back to the Obama era.

Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxson is accusing the Obama administration of overstepping

its authority when it told public schools to let transgender students use the restrooms

that correspond with their gender identity.

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