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Watch live: Ken Paxton impeachment trial

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas on June 22, 2017.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) impeachment trial moves into its sixth day Wednesday morning.

As The Hill’s Saul Elbein writes, the first impeachment trial in the in the Lone Star State’s modern history marks a potentially explosive moment for Texas’s Republican Party.

Paxton faces 20 counts of corruption.

The trial is scheduled to resume at 10 a.m. EDT.

Watch the live video above.