Anybody watching the Paxton trial? What just happened?

[Sucha NastyWoman]

Looks like Rusty Hardin made a mistake.? When he rested does that mean the states whole case is rested or just for that witness. Obviously he wanted to take it back but wasn’t allowed to.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. TX Senate deliberating Paxton motion to dismiss articles of impeachment

Link to tweet

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/13/ken-paxton-impeachment-trial-live-updates/#807373d1-5a5e-4a04-8162-1177159d88f8

Senate deliberating Paxton motion to dismiss articles of impeachment

After seven days of long, grueling testimony in the impeachment trial of suspended attorney general Ken Paxton, House lawyer Rusty Hardin rested his case.

But he did it accidentally, setting off a bizarre and unexpected chain of events that could potentially end the impeachment trial earlier than anticipated.

Hardin admitted that he accidentally rested too early before Paxton’s lawyers could cross-examine the last witness, Blake Brickman, one of the whistleblowers.

Paxton lawyer Tony Buzbee declined to press to cross-examine Brickman and instead quickly moved for a directed verdict, arguing that House managers had not sufficiently proved the articles of impeachment. The written motions challenged every article singly or in groups, he said.

[walkingman]

2. I saw that also - smells fishy to me. A top attorney making this kind

of mistake and if it was an accident Patrick holding him to it. The recent contribution from Paxton to Patrick is quite disturbing.

I never thought they would remove him - he is being judged by his compadres.

We shall see.....

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Motion to dismiss was withdrawned

[Sucha NastyWoman]

4. So what happens now?

[Tomconroy]

5. "Screw you, Rusty!" Anna Nicole Smith

Man, is Rusty Hardin the only litigator in Texas?

[Javaman]

6. what happened was someone fucked up.

or purposely fucked up.

the fix was always in.

they already got rid of paxton, the cronies now just don't want him to go to prison because he will spill the beans on all the repukes in the house.