AUSTIN, Texas — The rules for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s historic impeachment trial remained unclear late Tuesday as senators spent much of the day behind closed doors.
Proposed trial rules were distributed to senators in the morning, after which they spent several hours voting on property tax provisions and holding a news conference lauding the passage of that legislation. At 1:30 p.m., the Senate convened a meeting closed to the public without explicitly stating it was debating the proposed rules for impeachment proceedings.
Several senators did not respond to questions about whether they are currently considering the rules. The Senate briefly gaveled back in for a public meeting at 6 p.m. but immediately recessed again until 9 p.m.
