The Texas Senate on Tuesday rejected all of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him, moving forward with the first removal proceeding against a statewide elected official in more than a century.
The pretrial motions required a majority vote. The most support a motion to dismiss received was 10 out of 30 senators.
“absurdly” is being used as an appositive there, and so a comma is necessary.
http://www.german-latin-english.com/grammarappositives.htm#:~:text=Most appositives are nouns in,which they are in apposition.
Only mentioning anything because it’s that kind of comment section, and my English Teaching degree needs to be useful somewhere.