In a new interview with CBS Texas Jack Fink, LPHS attorney, David Coale, said Paxton's legal team could petition the Texas Senate to delay his impeachment trial.

"This is a question for Mr. Paxton, his team about how to best position him and the team to defend on these different fronts," Coale said. "The standard litigation 101 playbook is you try to deal with the criminal cases, then move back to civil cases. This is clearly not a standard 101-type of situation. Impeachment is the sort of hybrid of criminal and civil. Some decisions are going to have to get made by his defense team that, really, no defense team has ever had to evaluate in recent memory."

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