The pressure on Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is only increasing since the impeachment trial of the state’s attorney general. Ken Paxton, who was acquitted on impeachment articles alleging wrongdoing by the Texas Senate,

Senators voted to acquit Paxton on all articles of impeachment, which means the suspended attorney general will be returned to office. Senators voted to drop the other four impeachment articles against Paxton.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said he accepts the verdict in Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial but noted the acquittal did not erase all of the Texas attorney

Landry: "The trial was unfair and partial. It was rigged from the start and the heist came at the end. It was not, however, the reasons that play out in the narrative of the media."

The Texas Supreme Court greenlights a case where four whistleblowers are suing Attorney General Ken Paxton, while Mark Penley and Blake Brickman openly criticized Paxton and Senate Republicans who supported his acquittal in the impeachment trial.