How an extramarital affair factors into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's impeachment trial

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How much does an extramarital affair matter to whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton keeps his job? An answer may arrive soon.

A verdict in the trial could come as early as this week.

“The affair is important because it goes to Ken Paxton's political strength. He knows that with his folks he is family values,” Democratic state Rep. Ann Johnson said in May, moments before the House overwhelmingly voted 121-23 to impeach Paxton. “I told General Paxton quite bluntly it wasn’t my business who he was sleeping with, but when things bleed over into the office and into the state work, it becomes my business,” she said.Ken Paxton, who has pleaded not guilty, is not required to be present for testimony and was again not in the Senate on Monday.

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