Ken Paxton's legal team files two impeachment-related motions with Texas Senate before deadline hit

Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed two impeachment-related motions to the state Senate prior to a Saturday deadline. 

The attorney general's legal team filed to dismiss "inadmissible evidence" and Article V, the Disregard of Official Duty, according to the Washington Examiner. 

Earlier, they had argued to dismiss the 19 articles of impeachment against Paxton. 

Paxton was impeached earlier this year over allegations that include misusing his office to help Nate Paul, a real estate investor in Austin. 

His legal team argued that a $25,000 donation to Paxton's campaign from Paul in 2018 was irrelevant. 

“Admission of campaign-donation evidence could create a false impression that money was exchanged for some official act — alleged acts that even the House’s false accusations place two years in the future from the time of the contribution — even though such an exchange never occurred, and even though the House has no evidence that it did,” the motion read, according to the Examiner. 

“Yet if admitted, this evidence will allow Members of the Court to entertain the Managers’ unsupported theories, essentially letting the House 'prove' its allegations based on nothing more than rumors and innuendo. The Texas Rules of Evidence unequivocally bar such abusive trial tactics," it continued.