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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

by USNN World NewsAugust 6, 2025August 12, 2025

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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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House intel transcripts show top Obama officials had no ’empirical evidence’ of Trump-Russia collusion

By Brooke Singman | Fox News Newly released transcripts of interviews from the House Intelligence Committee’s long-running Russia investigation reveal top Obama officials acknowledged that they knew of no “empirical evidence” ...

Texas AG tells judge to free Dallas woman ‘unjustly jailed’ for operating hair salon

By Tyler Olson | Fox News Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday sent a letter urging a Dallas judge to free a woman he sent to jail a day earlier ...

Intel chief tells Schiff transcripts of Russia probe interviews cleared for release

By Brooke Singman, Mike Emanuel | Fox News Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has told House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff that transcripts from the panel’s ...

Coup Conspiracy Case Will Get Them All – Kevin Shipp

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Former CIA Officer and counter-terrorism expert Kevin Shipp says America is facing big internal and external foes. One of the biggest external ...

Researcher On Cusp Of COVID-19 Breakthrough Killed In Bizarre Murder-Suicide

By Tyler Durden A University of Pittsburgh researcher working on a coronavirus project was fatally shot on Saturday at his home in Ross Township, while ...

Government gone too far? States rebuked for coronavirus lockdown measures

By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News The Justice Department has sided with a Virginia church suing Gov. Ralph Northam after police threatened a pastor with jail time or a ...

House GOP says Schiff is ‘blocking’ release of Russia probe transcripts, demands access

By Brooke Singman | Fox News Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees are accusing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of “blocking” Russia probe transcripts and are demanding ...

NYPD officers say coronavirus social distancing policing needs to end

By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News Officers from the New York Police Department have decried city officials “get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether,” following backlash stemming ...

Chaffetz: ‘Very credible’ Biden allegations have exposed the media’s ‘incredible hypocrisy’

By Joshua Nelson | Fox News Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz said on Monday that Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden is “very credible.” “What it is ...

Oklahoma city amends coronavirus mask order following physical confrontations after reopening

By Robert Gearty | Fox News A city in Oklahoma has lifted a coronavirus mask requirement following reports of physical confrontations — and a threat of violence involving a gun — at ...

Dems deploying DARPA-funded AI-driven information warfare tool to target pro-Trump accounts

By Gregg Re | Fox News An anti-Trump Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal is planning to deploy an information warfare tool that received initial ...

New York Times calls for DNC investigation into Biden sexual assault claims

By Adam Shaw | Fox News The New York Times on Saturday called for the Democratic National Committee to investigate the sexual assault claims against presumptive Democratic nominee ...