AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s political career has been marked by a longstanding securities fraud indictment, an FBI probe and feeble attempts to oust him at the ballot box.
Now a House Ethics Committee investigation has ramped up the pressure on Paxton with a scathing report on an alleged bribery scheme that could – in the most extreme scenario – lead to the attorney general’s impeachment.
The House inquiry, even as it offers little new information, could force Republican leaders to discuss Paxton’s problems head on, instead of deferring his actions to the will of voters.
