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Y'all-itics: Do the impeachment trial rules help or hurt Ken Paxton?

Suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton is required to attend his own impeachment trial. But will he testify? What will his defense be?

DALLAS — Suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is required to attend his own impeachment trial. And his wife, state Senator Angela Paxton, will have no say in deliberations.

That's what we learned this week as a special Texas Senate committee on Wednesday adopted 31 rules for Paxton's upcoming impeachment trial.

Plenty of questions still loom about what else we can expect of the trial once it begins later this year -- at 9 a.m. on Sept. 5, to be exact.

Will Paxton himself testify? What will his defense be? 

On this week's special early-released episode of Y'all-itics, Travis County GOP chairman and veteran political consultant Matt Mackowiak shares what he expects will come of the trial.

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