More: How each Texas Senator voted in Ken Paxton's impeachment trial The remarks by Patrick rankled Phelan, who in March tasked a special committee to examine the attorney general's former aides ...

“Hang ‘em now and judge them later,” Smithee said ... There is no love lost between Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, who have previously battled over policy issues.

The case is charged in the 286th District County in Hockley County, however, District Judge Pat Phelan moved the trial venue to Lubbock. The trial was set to begin on Sept. 16 in Lubbock County ...

with Phelan’s support, to impeach Paxton in May. Patrick, who served as judge in the impeachment trial before the Senate, kept quiet until senators voted largely along party lines to acquit Paxton.

Samantha Dawn Mathis, 29, appeared before 286th Distrcit Judge J. Pat Phelan in Hockley County and pleaded guilty to a count of murder of a child younger than 10 years old, a first-degree felony ...