Music, media and entertainment---how you want,
when you want, where you want.
«  
  »
S M T W T F S
 
1
 
2
 
3
 
4
 
5
 
6
 
7
 
8
 
9
 
10
 
11
 
12
 
13
 
14
 
15
 
16
 
17
 
18
 
19
 
20
 
21
 
22
 
23
 
24
 
25
 
26
 
27
 
28
 
29
 
30
 
 
 
 
 

Ken Paxton’s Impeachment Was the Best Thing to Ever Happen to Him

Tags: texas
DATE POSTED:June 5, 2026
photo of ken paxton smilingThe occupational hazard of writing about “politricks” is that inevitably, you will make a lot of assertions and predictions that will make you look like God’s perfect idiot as soon as the period is affixed to the end of the sentence, like so. When Ken Paxton put John Cornyn out of business for good, I went back with some trepidation to the first stories I wrote about what seems now to be far and away the most important Texas political story of the decade—Paxton’s impeachment by the Texas House in 2023. That May, after the Republican-led House voted to impeach Paxton 121–23, I tried to explain the bigger context around the impeachment and why it was so shocking. It was a violation of the unspoken code…

The post Ken Paxton’s Impeachment Was the Best Thing to Ever Happen to Him appeared first on Texas Monthly.

Tags: texas