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9 P.M. UPDATE:

After nearly two days of deliberations, the wait is finally over. The Texas Senate announced late Wednesday night what rules are being considered for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial after multiple delays.

The public learned Paxton’s trial will begin September 5th at 9 a.m.

His wife and State Senator Angela Paxton will be required to attend the trial but is not allowed to vote.

A political science professor tells CBS Austin he feels that the initial consideration of the rules took so long because this is uncharted territory for those involved in this impeachment trial. The last time a state elected official was impeached was in 1970, before then it was 1917.

After nearly 30 plus hours of deliberating, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick announced a resolution stating some of the rules and procedures for Paxton’s trial.

"The citizens of Texas can count of the Senate of Texas to have a fair and just trial," said Lieutenant Governor of Texas Dan Patrick during the announcement.

Patrick stated any members of the court, members staff, presiding officers, and legal counsel of the presiding officers of the court, are prohibited from discussing or commenting on any matter related to Paxton’s trial with Paxton, his counsel, the board of managers, their council and any other individuals other than members of the court.

Patrick also made it clear that no member of the court, or the presiding officer of the court, shall "advocate a position on the merits of the proceedings" to other members of the court or the presiding officer until the deliberations began.

Political science professor Brian Smith shared his thoughts on what has been playing out.

“I think a lot of the confusion is that the Senate is meeting behind closed doors for all of this. And that's because the rules are going to be so important. Paxton has legal counsel and if the rules are made in the public eye, his council is going to try to court for public opinion and also influence the rules. We need an impartial Senate. If we see people fighting over the rules in public, then we're immediately going to question their impartiality,” said Smith.

Another resolution will require the suspended attorney general to appear before the senate before September 5th "to answer the said charges of impeachment."

As we have reported previously, charges against Paxton include bribery, abuse of office, retaliation against former employees and other accusations associated with defamed Austin real estate developer Nate Paul.

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick sent out a 29-page document laying out other rules for the impeachment trial. We have them listed below. The senate will meet again Friday at 9 a-m.

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ORIGINAL STORY:

For a second evening, Texas Senators were largely behind closed doors, negotiating on a final slate of rules for how Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial will take place.

Upon publication, no final set of rules were unveiled. While there isn’t a list of required rules to address, they could include a date for the trial to begin, details on whether or not witnesses will be called during the trial, whether or not Paxton can testify for himself, and, possibly, what role Paxton’s wife, Senator Angela Paxton, could play in her husband’s impeachment trial.

Following Paxton’s impeachment, the Texas Senate approved a resolution to discuss laying out rules for Paxton’s trial on June 20, with a trial to begin later this summer. June 20 came and went with no final word on any rules for the trial.

Instead, the upper chamber recessed several times over the course of two days, with mixed signals on how the discussion of rules were proceeding.

Early Tuesday afternoon, Senator Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, had indicated the Senate would recess until 5 p.m., which “may be our last recess for the day,” which proved to not come to fruition, after they recessed once again until 6:30.

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Just after 6:30, the Senate recessed until 7:30. Senator Bettencourt said he would likely be joined by more Senators at that point, inferring the deal could be made then.

Throughout the impeachment process, lawmakers have turned to what is largely the only other case on par with Paxton’s trial in Texas history: the impeachment and conviction of Governor James Ferguson in 1917.

Ferguson was indicted on counts of financial misconduct and was soon impeached by the House of Representatives. Afterward, in a three-week Senate trial, he was convicted and removed from office by a vote of 25-3.

Legislative journals, cataloguing the daily matters within the Texas legislature, show the Senate established the rules for its impeachment trial in late August, just days after he was impeached by the House and only days before his Senate trial began.

Before the rules were established, lawmakers had used Ferguson’s impeachment proceedings as a template in more ways than one, namely in the establishing of the Board of Managers to handle the proceedings, as well as the mere fact of establishing rules in and of themselves.

In 1917, the Senate initially approved a list of 29 rules for how Ferguson’s trial will proceed. Though they were largely procedural, they did also include a date for the Senate to convene as a court, as well as provisions to allow witnesses to be brought forward at the trial.

Both the prosecution and the defense in the Paxton impeachment have indicated they want to bring forward witnesses and allow Paxton’s defense to justly bring forward its case. Paxton’s team, led by Tony Buzbee, have expressed reservations about a trial beginning before August, saying a fair trial would entail more time to prepare.