Texas AG argues that his work is popular, therefore it is legal

 Wonkette - Say what you will about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — the guy has balls. Faced with a thousands of pages of evidence in the Texas House’s twenty-count motion to impeach him, he moves to dismiss for lack of evidence. His wife, Texas state Senator Angela Paxton, refuses to recuse herself from his trial, even as he moves to get Democratic senators disqualified for bias. Brushing aside evidence of a decade of corruption, he asserts the “doctrine of forgiveness” and/or the “prior term doctrine,” insisting that “Texas voters rendered their judgment by reelecting Attorney General Paxton to serve a third consecutive term. As a matter of both common sense and Texas law, that should be the end of the matter.”