After the Senate voted to acquit Attorney General Ken Paxton of all charges levied against him by the House General Investigating Committee on Saturday, several members of the House who voted against impeaching Paxton called on House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, to resign.

In an interview with The Center Square, Rep. Steve Toth, R-Spring, said Phelan should apologize and resign. He said the acquittal “isn’t just an exoneration [of Paxton]. It’s a repudiation of the Texas House. The Texas House owes not just Texas but the entire United States an apology for what they did.

”This was so wrong. We were told there would be evidence upon evidence upon evidence upon witnesses upon witnesses and there was nothing. It is a complete embarrassment for Texas, the Texas House, the speaker. The speaker needs to resign.”

Toth and the Republican Party of Texas were among the first to call the impeachment vote illegal and a “sham.”

[It was the non-existent “evidence upon evidence” that blew old boy out of the water. Had there been a shred, he just might have pulled it off, but when you have Democrats voting with the GOP to acquit on counts, man, oh, man. Your big move is in deep doodoo. ~ Beege]