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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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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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Suspected Fort Stewart Shooter Identified as US Army Sergeant, Officials Say

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Violent and Property Crime Fell Sharply in 2024: FBI

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Texas Governor Orders Arrest of Democratic Lawmakers Who Left State

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Kayleigh McEnany: Trump in ‘Great Spirits,’ Lawsuits Likely Will Make It to the Supreme Court

By Jack Phillips White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said President Donald Trump is in “great spirits” in the midst of several lawsuits over the Nov. 3 election, adding ...

Poll Watchers Allege Monitoring, Obstruction Attempts in Nevada

By Eva Fu Two Republican poll watchers left the counting center in Nevada’s Clark County in frustration, after what they say were deliberate efforts to obstruct ...

Trump: Biden ‘Only Won in the Eyes of the Fake News Media’

By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump, in a series of Twitter posts, wrote that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is a winner “only in the eyes” ...

Trump: Antifa Waited Until Most People Left MAGA Rally to Attack

By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump said late Saturday that Antifa members waited until most of the Trump rally participants left Washington to attack those still in the city. “ANTIFA SCUM ran ...

Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell ‘We’re Getting Ready to Overturn Election Results in Multiple States’

By Jack Phillips Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, a Trump campaign lawyer, suggested in a Sunday interview that there is still more evidence coming out in President Donald Trump’s claims ...

California Governor Violated the Constitution With Mail Ballot Order: Judge

By Zachary Stieber California Gov. Gavin Newsom exceeded his authority and violated the state Constitution with an executive order that let all Californians vote by mail if they ...

Trump Adds Sidney Powell to Election Legal Effort

BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV President Donald Trump on Saturday night announced the addition of Sidney Powell to his campaign’s election legal team. Powell gained the national spotlight when she took over as ...

Sidney Powell with Lou Dobbs: Release the Kraken

By NH POLITICIAN Whatever your political affiliation, if you are an individual of integrity and believe in fair play, freedom and liberty this video should ...

Trump Drives by Supporters Showing Up for ‘Million MAGA March’

By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump on Saturday drove by supporters who were in Washington for a pro-Trump march that organizers predicted would draw thousands. Trump exited the White ...

Collins: Georgia Can’t Properly Certify Election Without Verifying Signatures

BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV The head of the Trump campaign’s recount effort in Georgia said the Peach State will not be able to properly certify the results of the 2020 presidential ...

Google Has Power to Shift Millions of Votes Through Targeted Messaging: Dr. Robert Epstein

BY ELLA KIETLINSKA AND JAN JEKIELEK Big Tech companies such Google and Facebook have enormous power to shift people’s opinions and voting preferences through manipulation of the content of their ...

Victor Davis Hanson on the US Election 2020 & Trump’s Prospects | American Thought Leaders

By American Thought Leaders The Epoch Times https://youtu.be/5GKQ50gNNBk Does President Donald Trump have a path to a second term? What would it take? And how have ...