Texas Attorney General

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won reelection Tuesday, adding to Republicans’ decades of dominance in the state’s top offices despite a slew of legal problems and dysfunction in his agency.

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won a third term in Tuesday’s midterm elections under the cloud of an FBI investigation and dysfunction in his office that Democrats believe have opened an opportunity to end decades of GOP power in the state. NBC 5’s Scott Gordon reports from Paxton’s watch party in Plano and NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero from Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza’s watch...

Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has weathered a storm of troubles like few other elected officials in the U.S., is hoping to win his third term Tuesday if he can hold off Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza, a first-time candidate and former ACLU attorney.

Garza’s campaign is focused on reproductive freedoms, voting rights and Attorney General Paxton’s own legal past.

As Ken Paxton seeks to fend off legal troubles and win a third term as Texas’ top law enforcement official, his agency has come unmoored by disarray behind the scenes

A Texas judge has thrown out a lawsuit that the state bar brought seeking to discipline the top deputy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over the Republican’s failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud.

Civil Rights Attorney Rochelle Garza talks about her campaign strategy as the gap closes in the race for Texas Attorney General. Plus, what’s next for Congresswoman Liz Chaney? That and more on today’s edition of Lone Star Politics.

In the final months of the race for Texas attorney general, Democratic candidate Rochelle Garza is making inroads against Republican incumbent Ken Paxton.

The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced Tuesday the state was joining 49 other states in a nationwide Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force to deal with the overflow of robocalls in the U.S.

A prosecutor’s office said Friday that it won’t move forward with a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over his refusal to release his communications relating to his appearance at a pro-Donald Trump rally that preceded the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last year.

In the battle for Texas attorney general, early results show incumbent Ken Paxton has secured his spot on the November ballot. A majority of Republicans chose Paxton over Land Commissioner George P. Bush. In the Democratic runoff — Rochelle Garza has the lead over Joe Jaworski.

Texas is one of five states holding primary elections on Tuesday, May 24. Voters will decide who will be on the party ticket in the November election.

There are several key races in the runoffs in the Texas primary runoffs.

It is one of the most closely-watched primary runoffs in Texas: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush.

It is a heated battle in the Republican primary runoff for the Texas Attorney General’s office where current Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush is taking on a member of his own party, incumbent Ken Paxton.

It’s been nearly seven years since Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted on felony securities fraud charges. But there’s still no sign of when a trial will happen any time soon.

Days before a runoff election, Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn says the mounting pile of accusations and legal woes facing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are an “embarrassment.”

Republican George P. Bush has forced a runoff against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s trying to hang onto his job while under the cloud of an FBI investigation.

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush spoke with NBC 5 as he battles Eva Guzman, who served on the Texas Supreme Court from 2009-21, for the one remaining runoff spot with incumbent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Eva Guzman, who served on the Texas Supreme Court from 2009-21, is locked in a fight with Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush for the one remaining runoff spot against incumbent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.