Paxton new impeachment news roundup

First, Dan Patrick made big news Friday about appointing Judge Marc Brown as an impeachment advisor. A day later, Brown turned him down on conflict of interest issues, having made a past donation to a Paxton primary opponent. This shows that either Goeb and staff don't do research that well or else don't know/don't care about conflict of interest issues.

Update, Sept. 4: Here's a last, expanded, pre-trial look at the lay of the land, with votes on opening motions appended at the end.

Second, Patrick and the Senate have 4,000 pages of evidence to sift, after the House did a document dump after Warren K.'s legal beagles claimed there was no evidence. This piece of analysis notes that is supposably just the tip of the iceberg. I had thought, early this summer, that the trial would wrap in a week. With the amount of scrambling objections and Overton windows moving that Paxton's beagles will have to do in response to what will likely be a full week on the prosecution side, this will actually surely take most of two weeks and quite possibly go into a third. That second like has Karl Rove claiming that Paxton is toast, but on the Texas level, Rove's been GOP-irrelevant for a decade, so don't hang your hats on that, Tex-ass BlueAnon.

The Monthly has more on what's in those pages.

Third, a slimeball former assistant of Warren K. has provided evidence about the deepness of the derpity of Kenny Boy's ties to Nate Paul. He's also provided evidence that Warren either did not end his big old sexual affair when he claimed, or else that he later resumed it.

And on that, I wonder if a few of the Christofascists in the Senate will on this issue have an actual "Christo" win out over the "fascist." Ditto for the Tim Dunn Christofascist donors and Mucus and Luke Macias type Christofascist lobbyist-agitators. I mean, one issue that these folks are theoretically death on is sexual purity. Of course, that said, the GOP tent still IS a big tent for hypocrisy. (So is the Democrat big tent, but on other issues.) At one time, that wasn't so much the case, per old-time Newt Gingrich and his would-be successor, Robert Livingston, among others.