FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas on June 22, 2017. The Texas attorney general who survived a historic impeachment trial last year made a Super Tuesday primary a bitter Republican-on-Republican brawl, targeting the House speaker and dozens of other lawmakers who had sought his ouster. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
FILE - Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan presides over the House at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on May 23, 2023. The Texas attorney general who survived a historic impeachment trial last year made a Super Tuesday primary a bitter Republican-on-Republican brawl, targeting the House speaker and dozens of other lawmakers who had sought his ouster. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, file)