{"id":9171,"date":"2024-09-19T12:11:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/travis-county-sues-texas-ag-ken-paxton-over-voter-registration-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:11:18","slug":"travis-county-sues-texas-ag-ken-paxton-over-voter-registration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/travis-county-sues-texas-ag-ken-paxton-over-voter-registration-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis County sues Texas AG Ken Paxton over voter-registration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        The legal battle over voting rights between Texas&#8217; Democrat-controlled cities and its Republican attorney general has escalated. Austin&#8217;s Travis County \u2014 a longtime blue stronghold \u2014 has filed a federal lawsuit against Texas AG Ken Paxton and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson over the state&#8217;s efforts to block municipal voter-registration efforts before the November election. The legal filing comes as Paxton, a vocal ally of former President Donald Trump, has pursued lawsuits in state courts to block counties from sending voter-registration cards to people flagged as eligible but unregistered voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal battle over voting rights between Texas&#8217; Democrat-controlled cities and its Republican attorney general has escalated. Austin&#8217;s Travis County \u2014 a longtime blue stronghold \u2014 has filed a federal lawsuit against Texas AG Ken Paxton and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson over the state&#8217;s efforts to block municipal voter-registration efforts before the November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}