Ken Paxton Managed to Delay His Trial on Securities Fraud Charges for Eight Years. Now It’s Coming Home to Roost. 

At long last, Ken Paxton, the disgraced and suspended attorney general of Texas, will appear in a courtroom eight years after he was first charged on two counts of felony securities fraud in 2015. Paxton, with help from influential friends, has been able to postpone the case for nearly a decade with endless motions and hearings about venue changes, and by trying to cut the county funding paid to the special prosecutors tasked with holding him to account. That approach has been successful for years, but it may now backfire.Though the first hearing is Thursday, the criminal trial, which will be held in Houston, most likely won’t commence in full until after Paxton’s impeachment trial in the Texas Senate in September. In Austin, Paxton risks…

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