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Mounting Debt Taking a Toll on Health, Nearly Half of Americans Say

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Commerce Department Threatens to Take Ownership of Harvard Patents

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Zelenskyy Rules Out Ceding Land to Russia Ahead of Trump-Putin Meeting

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court on Aug. 8, asking the court to declare the House seats of 13 Texas Democrats vacant due to “unlawful absences.” Paxton filed the lawsuit shortly after Democrats broke a deadline set by Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows to return to the Capitol on Friday. “I have asked the Texas Supreme Court to declare what has been clear from the beginning: that the runaway members have officially vacated their offices in the Texas House,” Paxton said in a press release. Story continues below advertisement The lawsuit is aimed at 13 Democratic members who stated publicly they refused to return, “confirming in their own words the very grounds for this legal action,” according to the press release. Those named include the following Texas Democratic representatives: Ron Reynolds, Vikki Goodwin, Gina Hinojosa, James Talarico, Lulu Flores, Mihaela Plesa, Suleman Lalani, Chris Turner, Ana-Maria Ramos, Jessica Gonzalez, John Bucy III, Christina Morales, and Gene Wu, the Texas House Democratic Caucus chairman. Paxton said Texas law gives him the authority to represent the state in “quo warranto actions” and to appear before the Texas Supreme Court in matters of direct state interest. Related Stories Texas Governor Aims to Remove Absent Democrats With Emergency Petition to State High Court The Epoch Times Texas Holds Legislative Session After Democrat Lawmakers Depart The Epoch Times More than 50 state Democrats fled the state to derail Republican plans to redraw the state’s Congressional map before the midterm elections. “When members of the legislature disregard arrest warrants, refuse to perform their duties, and announce that they intend to prevent the legislature from exercising its constitutional responsibilities, they have, through words and conduct, demonstrated an intent to relinquish and abandon their offices,” the lawsuit states. Such legal action is rarely used. Warranto petitions are typically used to challenge a person’s right to hold a public or corporate office or to revoke a corporation’s charter. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also filed a warranto petition on Aug. 5 with the state’s high court, naming Wu as a respondent. The governor’s lawsuit alleged that House Democrats abdicated their official duties by refusing to show up for work. Story continues below advertisement The state justices gave Wu until Friday to respond. Paxton and Burrows took steps to enforce arrest warrants in other states, while the attorney general also began investigations into Powered by People and Texas Majority PAC for allegedly “operating an illegal financial influence scheme to bribe Democrats into breaking quorum.” Also, the fleeing Democrats potentially face felony charges and fines of $500 per day that must be paid from their own funds. The fight between Democrats and Republicans started when the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent Abbott a letter on July 7 raising concerns that four congressional districts in the Houston and Dallas areas were unconstitutional because of “racial gerrymandering.” Current boundaries run afoul of the Voting Rights Act by relying on racial demographics to group minority voters into “coalition districts,” where no single racial group forms a majority, according to the DOJ. Abbott added redrawing the congressional map onto the special session agenda, prompting the Democrats to purposefully break quorum and grind the legislature to a halt.

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Texas AG Files Suit With State Supreme Court to Declare Seats of 13 Absent Democrats Vacant

by USNN World NewsAugust 8, 2025August 8, 2025

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Trump to Meet Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15

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Trump Gained ‘10 Times More Income’ for Average Families Than Biden, Says Economist

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Poll: 74 Percent of Democrats Don’t Believe Trump Will Be Removed From Office

By Zachary Stieber Roughly seven in 10 Democrats said they don’t think President Donald Trump will be impeached and convicted in the Senate, according to a new poll. House Democrats announced ...

31 Trump District Democrats Will Decide Impeachment’s Fate in House

By Matthew Boyle Two of them already voted against the partisan impeachment push by their own party’s leadership and are expected to again, but the ...

Pollak: Line by Line, A Complete Debunking of the Democrats’ Articles of Impeachment

By Joel B Pollack Democrats released their two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, and they are a complete joke. Not only did ...

Steve Scalise on FBI’s FISA Abuse: ‘Some People Should Go to Jail’

By Robert Kraychik “Some people should go to jail,” said Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) of FBI officials’ misconduct in obtaining FISA court authorizations for surveillance ...

Joe Biden Pledges to Not Comply with Senate Subpoena in Impeachment Trial

By Harris Alic Joe Biden is promising to not comply if subpoenaed by lawmakers to testify at the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in ...

Poll: Michael Bloomberg Deeply Unpopular After Entering 2020 Race

By Joshua Caplan A newly-released poll shows billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is deeply unpopular with registered voters after jumping into the crowded ...

Adam Schiff: Congress Must Impeach Trump to Stop Him in 2020

By Hannah Bleau House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Tuesday indicated that Democrats must impeach President Trump quickly in order to stop him ...

Mike Braun: ‘Good Chance’ Three Senate Democrats Could Clear Trump in Impeachment Trial

By Sean Moran Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News during a press conference Tuesday as many as three Democrat senators could vote to clear ...

RNC: Impeachment a Partisan Attempt to Rob Voters of Chance to Re-Elect Trump

By Kristina Wong The Republican National Committee slammed Democrats’ announcement on Tuesday of two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, calling it an attempt ...

Geraldo Rivera: House Democrats’ Impeachment Effort is ‘Constitutional Vandalism’

By Joshua Caplan Fox News Channel contributor Geraldo Rivera blasted the House Democrats’ impeachment process against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling it “an act of ...

Lindsey Graham: FBI Ran ‘Criminal Enterprise to Defraud the FISA Court’

By Joshua Caplan Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday excoriated the FBI’s investigation into now-debunked collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia as a “criminal ...

Report: Over 40 Virginia Counties Now Second Amendment Sanctuaries

By AWR Hawkins A report from CNN claims over 40 counties in Virginia are now declared as Second Amendment Sanctuaries. On December 5, 2019, Breitbart News reported 23 ...