The five-term lawmaker who dropped his bid for a third term as speaker says he was right to impeach Ken Paxton and not twist ...

The ethics commission of the State Bar of Texas had sued Paxton for making dishonest claims of election fraud in a 2020 challenge to Biden's victory.

Burrows will lead one of the state’s highest offices after a dramatic bowing-out of the former House speaker, Dade Phelan, who lost favor with the hard-right faction of his party after Paxton's ...

State Representative Dustin Burrows will sit at the helm of ... Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Shortly after Texas lawmakers gaveled in on Tuesday, for the first day of the ...

Dustin Burrows (R) to lead the chamber in a blow to the rising far-right wing of the party, defeating a candidate supported by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and other top state figures.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is weighing a primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn (R) in what could be the next ...

Dustin Burrows as their new speaker after a month ... the fight had turned into a statewide campaign as Attorney General Ken Paxton toured the state, promising that any House Republican who ...

In a dramatic two-ballot vote Tuesday, Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock clinched the title of speaker of the Texas House.

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power struggle within the Republican Party that came down to an extraordinary floor ...

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role.

Instead, new House Speaker Dustin Burrows won the job with the support ... who lost favor with the hard-right faction of his party after Paxton's impeachment. The state Senate ultimately acquitted ...