{"id":1976257,"date":"2023-07-18T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxtons-attorney-cancels-news-conference-after-gag-order-issued-over-impeachment-trial\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:53:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:53:39","slug":"ken-paxtons-attorney-cancels-news-conference-after-gag-order-issued-over-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxtons-attorney-cancels-news-conference-after-gag-order-issued-over-impeachment-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Paxton&#8217;s attorney cancels press conference due to gag order on impeachment trial."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fken-paxtons-attorney-cancels-news-conference-after-gag-order-issued-over-impeachment-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1976257&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Texas Lt. Gov. \u200dDan Patrick Issues \u200cGag Order Ahead\u200b of \u200cHistoric Impeachment\u200d Trial<\/h2>\n<p>\u200d  <\/p>\n<p>Texas Lt. Gov.\u200c Dan \u2064Patrick, who will \u200coversee\u2062 Attorney General Ken\u2064 Paxton\u2019s \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-calls-for-trump-to-be-immediately-removed-from-office-by-impeachment-or-25th-amendment\/\" title=\"Schumer Calls for Trump to be \u201cImmediately Removed From Office\u201d by Impeachment or 25th Amendment\">impeachment trial<\/a>,\u2063 has issued \u2064a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxtons-attorney-cancels-news-conference-after-gag-order-issued-over-impeachment-trial\/\" title=\"Ken Paxton's attorney cancels press conference due to gag order on impeachment trial.\">sweeping gag order scolding lawyers<\/a> on \u200dboth\u2064 sides for their &#8220;inflammatory&#8221; public comments leading up to the historic\u200b September proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/senate.texas.gov\/_assets\/coi\/docs\/Gag-Order-20230717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf<\/a> of \u200dthe gag order issued on Monday,\u2062 Mr. \u200dPatrick states,\u2064 &#8220;The court finds that\u2063 individuals involved\u200d in the \u2062trial of impeachment will likely continue \u200dto make public prejudicial and inflammatory statements unless this order\u200b is issued.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr.\u200b Patrick, who leads the\u2062 Senate \u2062and \u2064will\u2062 preside over\u200d the impeachment, issued the order just \u200bbefore a \u2062highly anticipated \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-campaign-holds-press-conference-to-outline-viable-path-to-victory\/\" title=\"Watch Live: Trump Campaign Holds Press Conference to Outline 'Viable Path to Victory'\">news conference<\/a> with\u2062 Mr. Paxton\u2019s lead attorney\u2062 Tony \u2062Buzbee. However, \u2062the news conference has now been canceled.<\/p>\n<p> \u2063\u200d <\/p>\n<p>In an announcement\u200b for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-selects-pamela-smith-as-police-chief-as-crime-in-city-soars\/\" title=\"Pamela Smith chosen as DC police chief amidst rising crime.\">news\u200b conference<\/a>, \u2063Mr.\u2064 Buzbee accused House \u2064Speaker Dade \u200dPhelan\u2062 of\u200d orchestrating a &#8220;kangaroo court&#8221; that \u200dis \u200bwithholding the truth from \u2062the public in its effort to \u2064impeach the \u2062Republican\u2064 attorney\u200c general.<\/p>\n<p> \u2064 \u200b<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disgraced House Speaker \u200cDade Phelan\u2064 refuses to\u2062 follow Lt. Governor Dan Patrick\u2019s lawful order requiring \u200bthe disclosure of all\u2063 documents used by \u2063or relied upon\u200d by the kangaroo court that impeached \u200dconservative Attorney General Ken\u2064 Paxton; a\u200b flawed effort accomplished in less\u200d than three \u200bdays, \u200din\u200d a four-hour hearing, with absolutely no evidence,&#8221; Mr. Buzbee wrote in a statement \u200cshared by\u2064 The Texan News on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p> \u200d <\/p>\n<p>The impeachment has\u2064 brought to\u200b light\u200c the divisions among Texas Republicans, with 60 out \u2064of\u2063 85 House Republicans voting alongside \u200bDemocrats \u200cto impeach Mr. \u200cPaxton, \u2064despite there\u2062 being \u200d150\u2062 members \u2064in the Texas House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bottom line\u2062 is \u2064that Ken\u2064 Paxton is being \u200cimpeached because\u2064 he\u2062 is \u200bthe most conservative Attorney\u2063 General in America and \u2064has won numerous legal victories \u200dagainst Joe\u2062 Biden\u2019s lawlessness,&#8221; Mr. Buzbee\u2019s\u2062 statement \u2064continued.\u200b &#8220;He\u2019s \u200dsued Biden almost 50\u200b times to\u2063 prevent \u200chim from shredding \u200bour \u2064constitutional\u200c rights,\u2063 and now, powerful\u200d politicians in the Texas \u2063House are working \u2064to overturn an\u2063 election to help Joe Biden achieve \u200dhis goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State\u200c senators\u2062 who will\u2064 serve \u2062as Mr. Paxton\u2019s jury\u200d once \u200dhis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-warns-trump-impeachment-could-open-the-door-on-impeaching-former-civil-officers-whose-actions-are-disliked-by-political-opponents\/\" title=\"Blackburn warns Trump impeachment could \u2018open the door\u2019 on impeaching former civil officers whose actions are disliked by political opponents\">trial begins<\/a> were already barred from speaking \u200bpublicly about the \u2063case under rules issued earlier this \u200bsummer. However, Mr. Patrick, a former Houston broadcaster\u200d and conservative talk \u2063radio \u2063host, is \u2062now reining \u200bin attorneys on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u200d court finds \u200cthat out-of-court\u2063 statements relating \u2062to\u200d the matters\u2062 of this\u200c impeachment proceeding pose a serious and imminent threat to Warren Kenneth Paxton, \u200bJr.\u2019s, right \u200cto\u200c a fair trial of impeachment,\u200c the \u200bability\u2063 of\u2063 the members \u2063of the court to \u2062remain fair and impartial,&#8221; \u200dthe gag\u200d order \u200dstates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, responsible for overseeing Attorney General Ken Paxton&#8217;s impeachment trial, has issued a comprehensive gag order. He admonished lawyers on both sides for making &#8220;inflammatory&#8221; public remarks prior to the significant September proceedings. The court predicts that those involved in the trial will persist in making prejudiced and provocative statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":1976258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}