Senators scheduled to resume deliberations Saturday morning.
Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesAfter about eight hours of deliberations, Texas Senators adjourned at 8 p.m. Friday without reaching a verdict in the impeachment trial of. They are expected to take up the case again at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Each of the four people called to the stand on Thursday for the defense are current employees of the attorney general’s office, and they each felt as though their controversial boss is doing a pretty swell job of being the right-wing defender of liberty he has told everyone he is. “Mr. Paxton’s attorneys like to remind everyone that he was elected by 4.2 million voters,” Murr said to the Senate jury. “But they have blindly ignored the fact that he has only ended up serving one person, himself.”
Providing an emotional close to the prosecution's closing argument, Plano state Rep. Jeff Leach employed a nearly religious tone to his remarks. Leach, a longtime friend of Paxton's, called the AG his “brother in Christ” and said that he “has loved” him in response to the defense’s claim that those House Republicans who voted to impeach Paxton hated the attorney general.