Paxton’s supporters have vowed to spend heavily to unseat lawmakers who supported the impeachment. GOP Speaker Dade Phelan and his allies, who led the charge to oust Paxton, are armed with plenty of their own money to parry the attacks.

The Texas attorney general was exonerated by the state Senate, but a lawsuit from former employees still lingers.

Fresh off an acquittal in his impeachment trial in the Texas Senate, Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened political revenge against three House members whom he deems responsible for trying to remove him from office.

He did not discuss accusations that he misused his office to protect a political donor, which were the backbone of Paxton becoming just the third sitting official in Texas’ nearly 200-year history to

The attorney general’s acquittal affects an upcoming legislative session on school vouchers—and the civil war within the Texas GOP.

The Senate voted Saturday to acquit Paxton on all 16 articles of impeachment for which he had been tried that accused him of abuse of office and bribery. The decision has ratched up a GOP civil war in Texas, especially between the Senate and House, which overwhelmingly voted to impeach Paxton in May.

AUSTIN (CBSNewsTexas.com) - After a two-week trial and hours of deliberations, senators voted to acquit Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on 16 impeachment articles of impeachment that accused him of abusing his office to benefit himself and a campaign donor.

Paxton was impeached by Texas Republicans and Democrats in the House on 19 counts of fraud and corruption. However, 16 Texas MAGA Senators banded together to acquit him on every charge. Donald Trump bragged afterwards that he called those Senators,

Tucker Carlson/TwitterTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped a number of conspiracy bombs in his first interview since his acquittal on corruption charges at his impeachment trial over the weekend.