{"id":6217,"date":"2023-09-21T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/gop-senators-open-to-paxton-conviction-flipped-when-they-realized-they-were-still-short-the-votes\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:09:23","slug":"gop-senators-open-to-paxton-conviction-flipped-when-they-realized-they-were-still-short-the-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/gop-senators-open-to-paxton-conviction-flipped-when-they-realized-they-were-still-short-the-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators, open to Paxton conviction, flipped when they realized they were still short the votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        In the closing arguments of the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton, Rep. Jeff Leach, a former Paxton ally who was now making the case against him, told his Senate colleagues that their next vote would be \u201cthe hardest vote, the most difficult vote, the heaviest vote\u201d that they would ever cast. After 13 witnesses and dozens of hours of testimony and cross-examination \u2014 it was finally time for the Texas Senate, acting as the jury, to deliberate. Senators ate lunch and then fanned out across their side of the Texas Capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the closing arguments of the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton, Rep. Jeff Leach, a former Paxton ally who was now making the case against him, told his Senate colleagues that their next vote would be \u201cthe hardest vote, the most difficult vote, the heaviest vote\u201d that they would ever cast. After 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}