AUSTIN — The cost of the high-stakes impeachment trial for Attorney General Ken Paxton is largely a question mark and will depend on the length of proceedings.
Lawyers hired by House impeachment managers to argue that Paxton should be removed from office will make $500 an hour, plus travel costs, according to public documents obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
The state’s senators, who will sit as jurors, will receive daily stipends. And while Paxton’s lead defense lawyer said he won’t be paid with public funds, he has not said how the team will be paid, including six staffers who took a leave of absence from the attorney general’s office to join their boss’s legal team.
