After closing arguments in the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the lawyers who led the prosecution were riding high and feeling positive about the prospects of a conviction.

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 attorney general's impeachment and acquittal are both historic: he's only the third state official to be impeached and the only one not convicted.

In a radio interview Thursday, Paxton said he's "highly motivated" to take out House Speaker Dade Phelan and Reps. Andrew Murr and Jeff Leach.

After a two-week trial, the senator jurors had to decide whether to remove Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from office. No matter their decision, it

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a TV interview that the controversy over the funding ignored that he took just as much from “the other side.”

The man who put the gag order in place for the impeachment trial against Attorney General Ken Paxton is speaking freely now that the gag order is over. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is defending the Texas Senate’s process as “unbiased” while slamming the House’s initial decision to impeach in late May.

It isn’t hard to imagine LBJ saying you can’t make chicken salad out of the character of those GOP state senators. | Opinion