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,

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

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.

A timeline of events that led to acquittal of three-term Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton during his impeachment trial in the state Senate.

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.