{"id":1991888,"date":"2023-08-05T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-attorneys-file-two-motions-with-texas-senate-just-before-deadline\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T16:19:42","slug":"ken-paxton-attorneys-file-two-motions-with-texas-senate-just-before-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-attorneys-file-two-motions-with-texas-senate-just-before-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Paxton&#8217;s lawyers submit two motions to Texas Senate right before deadline."},"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\">24<\/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-paxton-attorneys-file-two-motions-with-texas-senate-just-before-deadline%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=1991888&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--><h2>Texas Attorney General Ken\u2064 Paxton&#8217;s Attorneys File Motions to Dismiss Impeachment Charges<\/h2>\n<p>Just before the deadline, Texas Attorney\u200d General \u200dKen Paxton&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-complaint-names-kim-kardashian-in-roman-statue-smuggling-case\/\" title=\"Federal Complaint Names Kim Kardashian In Roman Statue Smuggling Case\">attorneys filed<\/a> two motions to \u200bthe state Senate, aiming to dismiss certain evidence \u2062and charges brought against him.<\/p>\n<h3>Motion to\u2064 Dismiss Inadmissible Evidence<\/h3>\n<p>Paxton&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-official-in-2016-largest-threat-to-national-security-are-u-s-cops-not-isis\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Official In 2016: \u2018Largest Threat To National Security Are U.S. Cops. Not ISIS.\u2019\">attorneys argue<\/a> that a $25,000 campaign \u200ddonation from Natin &#8220;Nate&#8221; Paul should\u200b be\u2063 deemed irrelevant and inadmissible. They state that this evidence falls\u200c outside the scope of admissible \u2063evidence and should be excluded from \u2062the \u200btrial. They also emphasize that admitting such evidence would enable prosecutors to employ \u2062&#8221;abusive \u200ctrial tactics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Admission of\u200c campaign-donation evidence could create a false impression \u200bthat money was exchanged for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gran-torino-co-star-tries-to-retroactively-cancel-film-calls-it-insensitive\/\" title=\"\u2018Gran Torino\u2019 Co-Star Tries To Retroactively Cancel Film, Calls It \u2018Insensitive\u2019\">official act<\/a>, even\u200c though such an exchange never occurred,&#8221; the motion \u2062reads. &#8220;The Texas Rules of Evidence unequivocally bar such abusive trial\u2064 tactics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Motion to Dismiss \u2062Article V: Disregard of Official Duty<\/h3>\n<p>The second motion seeks to dismiss the charge that Paxton committed\u200c an official disregard of duty under Article V. Paxton&#8217;s attorneys argue that this charge is unprecedented in 500 years of parliamentary procedure and does not constitute an impeachable \u200doffense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No legislature sitting as a court of impeachment has ever suggested that \u200ban elected\u2064 official&#8217;s formation of an employment\u200d contract with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-attorneys-file-two-motions-with-texas-senate-just-before-deadline\/\" title=\"Ken Paxton's lawyers submit two motions to Texas Senate right before deadline.\">subordinate attorney rises<\/a> to the level of a &#8216;grave official wrong,'&#8221; the attorneys state.<\/p>\n<p>They further assert that Paxton is entitled to acquittal as \u200ba matter of law on Article V and urge the court to dismiss \u200cit.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s filing comes after a week of intense legal battles for Paxton, who is facing allegations of bribery, abuse of power, and retaliation against whistleblowers.\u2062 Earlier\u200c in the week, \u200dhis lawyers argued that \u200dmost of the charges should\u200d be thrown out due to voters&#8217; prior knowledge of the allegations and the timing of the actions in question.<\/p>\n<p>Stay updated on this developing story by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dismiss the entire impeachment trial against Paxton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991889,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1991888","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}