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Celtics Re-Sign Coach Joe Mazzulla to Contract Extension Amid Historic Start to Career

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

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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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‘This Is Election Interference’: House Oversight Veteran on Biden Classified Documents

By Nathan Worcester A House Oversight Committee veteran said the delay in publicizing President Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents from his time as vice president amounts ...

Comer Presses Treasury to Hand Over Records of ‘Suspicious Business Transactions’ as Biden Family Investigation Moves Forward

By Tom Ozimek The new chair of the House Oversight Committee has requested information from the Department of the Treasury on the Biden family’s and ...

Trump Believes Biden Knew About Classified Documents at Former Office Before Discovery in November

By Frank Fang Former President Donald Trump is questioning the timeline of the November discovery of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center, a revelation made by ...

House Will Vote on Bill to Abolish IRS, Replace Income Tax

By Andrew Moran The Republican-led House of Representatives will soon vote on legislation to abolish the IRS and replace the income tax code with a ...

House Creates Panel on ‘Weaponization of the Federal Government’

By Mimi Nguyen Ly The new Republican-majority House voted Tuesday afternoon to create a select subcommittee to investigate the “weaponization of the government” by federal law ...

House Panel Launches Investigation Into Biden’s Classified Document Stash

By Tom Ozimek The House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified records from his time as vice president, following ...

Operations ‘Resuming Gradually’ After All Flights Grounded Across US: Federal Agency

By Tom Ozimek Operations in the United States are starting to resume after all flights across the country were grounded, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

‘No Legal Difference’ Between Biden’s Classified Document Stash and Trump’s: Lawyer

By Tom Ozimek The White House’s disclosure that classified documents were found in an office President Joe Biden used before taking office has prompted comparisons ...

McCarthy Plans to Remove Schiff, Omar, Swalwell From House Committees

By Jack Phillips House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) confirmed Monday that he plans to remove Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from their committee ...

Why No ‘Mar-a-Lago Raid’ for Biden?

By Nathan Worcester As Republican lawmakers like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) worry that President Joe Biden’s retention of classified materials from his vice presidency may be ...

Supreme Court Rejects Case Seeking to Overturn 2020 Election

By Zachary Stieber The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 9 turned down a case that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Justices decided against ...

House Passes Bill to Rescind Over $70 Billion in IRS Funding

By Mimi Nguyen Ly The House of Representatives voted late Monday to rescind over $70 billion to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the first ...