Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial begins on charges of corruption and bribery

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faced the most serious threat to his troubled career Tuesday as an impeachment trial began that could permanently oust the embattled Republican from office after years of alleged corruption and scandal.
The fate of Paxton, a 60-year-old Republican, is in the hands of GOP senators with whom he served before winning a statewide race to take charge of the attorney general’s office in 2015.
A handful of Paxton supporters in red shirt