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Mexico Extradites 26 Alleged Cartel Members to US

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Uvalde School District Releases Records Related to 2022 Robb Elementary Shooting

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Trump Places DC Police Under Federal Control, Orders National Guard to Washington

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Environmental Protection Agency Terminates Contracts With Unionized Employees

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Commerce Department Threatens to Take Ownership of Harvard Patents

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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 Announces Apple’s Additional $100 Billion US Investment Plan

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Record US Honey Bee Losses and What Mite Be Behind Them

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Prospect of an Unlikely Trump-RFK Ticket Remains a Hot Topic

By Alice Giordano As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. draws unusual bipartisan support in the race for the White House, there is a swell of sentiment ...

Cocaine Is ‘No Way’ Hunter Biden’s, Claims McEnany as White House Invokes Hatch Act

By Naveen Athrappully Former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany dismissed the idea that Hunter Biden could be responsible for bringing cocaine into the ...

Only ‘One of the Family Members’ Could Have Brought Cocaine Inside White House: Former Secret Service

By Naveen Athrappully Former secret service agent Dan Bongino is claiming that the only explanation for the presence of cocaine in the White House is ...

Senator Challenges Secret Service Over Cocaine Found at White House

By Caden Pearson Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Wednesday pressed the U.S. Secret Service for details regarding its ongoing investigation into the discovery of cocaine ...

Congressman Proposes Legislation to Prevent AI-launched Nuclear Attacks

By Savannah Hulsey Pointer The possibility that an artificial intelligence (AI) system could launch a nuclear attack on its own has prompted members of the ...

Wall Street Investor Bill Ackman Says RFK Jr. Is Asking ‘Important Questions’ About COVID-19 Vaccines

By Catherine Yang For years, Democratic presidential candidate hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has raised serious questions about the safety of certain vaccine ingredients, an ...

Judge Delivers Major Blow to Biden Admin in Social Media Censorship Case

By Tom Ozimek A federal judge has made a historic ruling by partially granting an injunction that blocks various Biden administration officials and government agencies ...

Judge Orders Release of More Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Information in Trump Classified Docs Case

By Jack Phillips More portions of the federal government’s search warrant affidavit for Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home can now be unsealed, ruled a judge in ...

Trump ‘In a Much More Dominant Position’ Than in 2016 Race: Former GOP Presidential Campaign Strategist

By Ryan Morgan Former President Donald Trump is in a stronger position so far in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race than he was in ...

RFK Jr. Decries Biden Admin’s Withholding of Some JFK Assassination Records

By Alice Giordano On the afternoon of Friday before arguably one of the busiest holiday weekends in America, the Biden administration issued a memo announcing that due ...

IN-DEPTH: The 11 Senate Seats Most Likely to Flip in 2024

By John Haughey There will be 34 U.S. Senate seats on ballots across the nation in November 2024, including 20 held by Democrats, three by ...

National Archives Releases Most, but Not All JFK Files: ‘We Protect What We Must’

By Samantha Flom More than 99 percent of the classified documents surrounding the 1963 assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy have been publicly ...