The Texas House General Investigating Committee’s unanimous passage of articles of impeachment late Thursday against Attorney General Ken Paxton caused a predictably politically charged response from the attorney general.

Paxton fired off a statement labeling the GOP-led committee’s appointed investigators as “four liberal lawyers” whose report was “based on hearsay and gossip, parroting long-disproven claims.”

‘Republican in Name Only?’

Rep. Andrew Murr - Kerrville House General Investigating Committee Chair Rep. Andrew Murr