{"id":9510,"date":"2025-08-08T17:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/texas-ag-paxton-sues-beto-orourke-for-bribery-moves-to-vacate-seats-of-13-house-dems-in-friday-filings\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:09:51","slug":"texas-ag-paxton-sues-beto-orourke-for-bribery-moves-to-vacate-seats-of-13-house-dems-in-friday-filings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/texas-ag-paxton-sues-beto-orourke-for-bribery-moves-to-vacate-seats-of-13-house-dems-in-friday-filings\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas AG Paxton sues Beto O&#8217;Rourke for bribery, moves to vacate seats of 13 House Dems in Friday filings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         In a slew of legal filings late Friday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued former U.S. Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke for &#8220;unlawful fundraising activity&#8221; and asked the state&#8217;s Supreme Court to vacate the seats of 13 quorum-breaking House Democrats. The move comes after House Democrats, despite threats of arrest, broke quorum for a fourth straight day of the current session, fleeing to blue states in a bid to block Republicans&#8217; plan to redraw Texas&#8217; political maps, which could give the party as many as five additional congressional seats. Gov. Greg Abbott initiated the scheme at the command of President Donald Trump, who&#8217;s concerned his unpopularity is likely to cost the GOP control of the U.S. House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a slew of legal filings late Friday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued former U.S. Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke for &#8220;unlawful fundraising activity&#8221; and asked the state&#8217;s Supreme Court to vacate the seats of 13 quorum-breaking House Democrats. The move comes after House Democrats, despite threats of arrest, broke quorum for a fourth straight day [&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\/9510"}],"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=9510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}