{"id":1993790,"date":"2023-08-07T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T02:22:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-08-07T22:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T02:23:20","slug":"ken-paxton-attorneys-move-to-dismiss-all-articles-of-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-attorneys-move-to-dismiss-all-articles-of-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Paxton&#8217;s lawyers seek dismissal of all impeachment charges."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-move-to-dismiss-all-articles-of-impeachment%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=1993790&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 \u200dAttorney\u2063 General Ken Paxton&#8217;s Attorneys Move to Dismiss\u2062 Articles of Impeachment<\/h2>\n<p>Texas Attorney \u200bGeneral \u200dKen Paxton&#8217;s attorneys are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-expert-confirms-voting-machines-connected-to-internet-during-ga-senate-subcommittee-on-elections\/\" title=\"Tech expert confirms voting machines connected to internet during Ga. senate subcommittee on elections\">taking action<\/a> \u2063to \u200ddismiss all articles of impeachment against him. The \u2063motions were filed\u200b before the \u2064deadline on Saturday and have now \u2062been made public. This move comes as \u2063Paxton&#8217;s attorneys accuse the House impeachment managers of attempting to subvert democracy and overturn the\u200b will of voters.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging the\u2063 Impeachment Process<\/h3>\n<p>Paxton&#8217;s attorneys have\u2064 gone\u200c a step\u200b further by moving\u200c to dismiss the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schiff-taunts-gop-shell-of-its-former-self-crenshaw-fires-back-your-party-believes-men-can-be-pregnant\/\" title=\"Schiff Taunts GOP: \u2018Shell Of Its Former Self.\u2019 Crenshaw Fires Back: \u2018Your Party Believes Men Can Be Pregnant\u2019\">entire impeachment<\/a>.\u200b They have also filed individual motions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-attorneys-move-to-dismiss-all-articles-of-impeachment\/\" title=\"Ken Paxton's lawyers seek dismissal of all impeachment charges.\">dismiss specific articles<\/a> of impeachment. One such filing\u2062 challenges the article that deals with asking the\u2062 state government to pay for\u200c Paxton&#8217;s whistleblower settlement. The attorneys argue that this \u200cis a \u2064routine function of \u2063his job and impeaching him over\u2064 it is \u200da\u200d violation of \u200bdemocracy.<\/p>\n<p>The House impeachment managers will have until Aug. 15 to respond in writing to \u200ceach motion. After\u2063 that, the motions will be brought to the Senate for a vote. This gives the\u2063 Republican-dominated Senate a second chance to reject Paxton&#8217;s \u200cimpeachment, with only 16 of the \u206419 Republican votes needed.<\/p>\n<h3>Accusations and Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>Paxton\u2063 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-cant-just-criminalize-republican-speech-and-ignore-all-the-democrats-who-have-incited-violence-rand-paul-blasts-schumer-for-inciting-hate-and-violence-video\/\" title=\"\u201cYou Can\u2019t Just Criminalize Republican Speech and Ignore All the Democrats Who Have Incited Violence\u201d \u2013 Rand Paul Blasts Schumer for Inciting Hate and Violence (VIDEO)\">facing impeachment<\/a> \u200bover accusations of \u2063bribery, obstruction of justice, and misappropriation \u200bof public resources. These allegations stem from whistleblower claims regarding misconduct in an \u2064investigation involving \u2064a \u200cfriend and political donor \u2064of the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-rejects-idea-that-he-didnt-drain-the-swamp-in-first-term\/\" title=\"Trump denies not 'draining the swamp' in first term.\">attorney\u200b general<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both the motions to dismiss individual articles and\u200c to dismiss\u2064 the impeachment entirely will\u200d be \u2062voted on, shaping \u200cthe \u2062future \u2064of Paxton&#8217;s political career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton&#8217;s lawyers have filed motions to dismiss all articles of impeachment against him. The motions were submitted before the deadline on Saturday and were made public on Monday. Paxton, a Republican, seeks to dismiss 19 out of the 20 articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1993791,"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-1993790","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\/1993790","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=1993790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}