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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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Hard to Believe? For the Miami Marlins, the Wild Card Is Within Reach

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Suspect Dead, Officer Killed in Shooting Reported at Emory University

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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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FAA Plans to Hire Nearly 9,000 Air Traffic Controllers by 2028 Amid Nationwide Shortage

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US Households Owed an Average of $152,653 at the End of Q2 2025: Report

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Pence to Campaign in Georgia With GOP Senators Facing Runoffs

By Zachary Stieber Vice President Mike Pence will campaign in Georgia with Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) as they try to convince voters to choose them ...

Nevada County Tosses Local Election Result Citing 139 Discrepancies

BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV Nevada’s Clark County on Monday tossed the results of a local election after a canvass unearthed 139 discrepancies in a district on a ...

Dershowitz: ‘Biden Is Not the President Elect’

BY MIMI NGUYEN LY Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said that Joe Biden is not the president elect but is entitled to describe himself as such. “The president elect doesn’t get ...

Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax TV: Cancel Calls on Lawyers Is ‘McCarthyism’

By Solange Reyner Pressure on lawyers to withdraw from President Donald Trump’s election challenges is “pure and simple McCarthyism,” according to legal expert Alan Dershowitz ...

GOP Rep.-Elect Who Grew Up in Ukraine Warns About Socialism

By Jack Phillips A Republican representative-elect from Indiana, who grew up in Ukraine, is warning about efforts by the Democratic Party to steer the United ...

Trump Says 2020 Election Was Unconstitutional

By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump asserted in a series of new tweets that the 2020 election violated the U.S. Constitution. Trump, a Republican vying for a second term, ...

Wisconsin Lawsuit Aimed at Excluding Nearly 800,000 Votes Dismissed

By Zachary Stieber A federal lawsuit in Wisconsin that drew nationwide attention was dismissed on Nov. 16. Three voters filed the suit last week, seeking to exclude election results in three of ...

Trump Campaign Lawyer Says She Was Harassed, Threatened by Attorney at Opposing Firm

By Jack Phillips Campaign spokesman says she received ‘physical and economic threats’. A spokesman for President Donald Trump’s campaign and legal team said a lawyer working ...

SpaceX Launches 2nd Crew Another Historic Moment

By The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by ...

Q&A for State Legislators and Citizens—The Constitution and How to Settle the Election

By Robert G. Natelson Commentary Irregularities in the presidential election returns of six states have sparked the question “What next?” The states are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, ...

Bellwether Counties Went Overwhelmingly for Trump in 2020

By Petr Svab News Analysis Over the past nearly 40 years, presidential elections have observed an intriguing phenomenon: 19 counties in the nation have always voted ...

The law is clear: If an election is stolen, state legislatures can restore the will of the people

By Distributed News – News Editors President Trump and his team are under a relentless media blitz campaign which has only one goal: Pressuring the ...