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Mere hours after the Texas Senate acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton on sixteen articles of impeachment, Andrew Murr, the Republican state representative and lead prosecutor of the Paxton impeachment trial, strode to the microphone in a Capitol conference room. With his carefully groomed handlebar mustache, rail-thin frame, and ramrod-straight posture, he resembled an Old West lawman. Speaking of the eight appointees who reported evidence of their boss’s corruption to the FBI in 2020 and whose testimony was at the heart of the impeachment trial, Murr praised the “brave, principled public servants” who “put themselves at personal and professional risk to protect the people of the state of Texas.” Murr could just as well have been talking about himself. Earlier in the day, Texas Department of Public…

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