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Federal Policing Takes Effect in Washington—What to Know

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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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DC Locals Have Mixed Reactions to Trump’s Police Takeover

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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

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Suspect Dead, Officer Killed in Shooting Reported at Emory University

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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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Trump Announces ‘Big Political Speech’

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US Reaches Debt Ceiling, Forcing Treasury Into ‘Extraordinary Measures’

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Biden Says Americans Would ‘Need Some F-15s’ to Fight Government

By Katabella Roberts President Joe Biden said on Monday that AR-15 rifles wouldn’t help Americans in an armed conflict with the federal government. Biden made the comments during the ...

McConnell Calls on DOJ to Treat Trump and Biden Documents ‘Exactly the Same Way’

By Dorothy Li Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Jan. 17 said the special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) ought to treat President ...

Wyoming Lawmakers Propose Bill to Phase Out EVs by 2035

By Bill Pan A group of six Republican lawmakers in Wyoming are proposing to phase out the sale of new electric vehicles in the state by 2035 ...

New Hampshire Democrats Warn Biden 2024 Primary Changes Would ‘Wreak Havoc’

By Jack Phillips President Joe Biden was warned by New Hampshire Democrats not to replace the state as the first presidential primary, arguing that a recently proposed primary lineup ...

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar Back on Committee Assignments After Being Stripped of Them in Previous Congress

By Mimi Nguyen Ly Two Republican House lawmakers landed committee assignments after having been stripped of them in the previous Democrat-controlled Congress on separate occasions in ...

Pay per Mile: States Move Toward User-Based Road Tax

By Beth Brelje With each gallon of gas pumped in the United States since 1932, drivers have been paying taxes. The revenue is used for ...

The Need for COVID Reparations

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Comer Accuses National Archives of Stonewalling Probe Into Biden Classified Documents

By Tom Ozimek The new chair of the House Oversight Committee has accused the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of stonewalling the GOP-led probe into President ...

Trump Reacts After White House Says No Visitor Logs for Biden’s Delaware House

By Eva Fu Former President Donald Trump spoke out after the White House said there are no visitor logs for President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, ...

Republicans See Potential Hunter Biden Link in Classified Documents Case

By Ryan Morgan Republican lawmakers are looking into whether President Joe Biden’s son Hunter may be connected in any way to the potentially classified documents recently discovered ...