{"id":1215264,"date":"2023-09-16T20:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T20:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=7599c1eea4b5ea31d285b9f3df2de974"},"modified":"2023-09-16T20:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T20:24:53","slug":"texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-acquitted-on-all-16-impeachment-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/16\/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-acquitted-on-all-16-impeachment-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Acquitted on All 16 Impeachment Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Senate on Saturday acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton of 16 articles of impeachment alleging corruption and bribery, his most artful escape in a career spent courting controversy and skirting consequences of scandal. No article received more than 14 of the required 21 votes to convict. Only two of 19 Republican Senators, Bob Nichols of Jacksonville and Kelly Hancock of North Richland…<\/p>\n

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The vote is a major win for Paxton, but he still faces a federal investigation and state charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37500,361,137,14292,4,3371,876,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215267,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215264\/revisions\/1215267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}