The National Implications Of Impeaching Texas' Attorney General
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This episode: voting correspondents Miles Parks and Ashley Lopez, and Sergio Martinez-Beltrán of the Texas Newsroom.
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| 0:59.9 | Miles Parks. I cover voting. And I'm Ashley Lopez. I also cover voting. And today we have |
| 1:04.6 | Sergio Martinez Beltran from the Texas newsroom. Hey, Sergio. Hey, y'all. So we are talking Texas |
| 1:11.9 | today because there is a big story happening there. The Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is |
| 1:18.3 | facing an impeachment trial which began this week. Paxton is a Republican. He is a big ally |
| 1:24.4 | of former president Trump. But the efforts to impeach him have been bipartisan. And Sergio, |
| 1:30.1 | let's just start with you. You're at the state house there in Austin. Can you just tell us |
| 1:35.0 | for people who do not live in Texas? Why does Ken Paxton matter? Right. I mean Ken Paxton won |
| 1:41.0 | the Texas Attorney General's office about a decade ago and has been reelected twice since then. |
| 1:46.8 | And you know, like you mentioned, he's a conservative and is super popular with GOP voters, |
| 1:51.6 | particularly those who identify as grassroots Republicans. And part of the reason why he so loved |
| 1:57.1 | by many Republicans is because of his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. |
| 2:03.4 | Of course, he's a big fan of former president Trump. But Paxton also has some influence on |
| 2:08.7 | the lives of those who live outside of Texas. He's made a name by being strict on issues like |
| 2:13.7 | voter fraud and for fighting with the Obama and Biden administrations over immigration, |
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