{"id":9640,"date":"2025-08-26T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/bill-giving-attorney-general-authority-to-prosecute-election-crimes-heads-to-abbotts-desk\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:09:39","slug":"bill-giving-attorney-general-authority-to-prosecute-election-crimes-heads-to-abbotts-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/bill-giving-attorney-general-authority-to-prosecute-election-crimes-heads-to-abbotts-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill giving attorney general authority to prosecute election crimes heads to Abbott\u2019s desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas House on Tuesday sent a measure to Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s desk that would let the attorney general\u2019s office independently prosecute election-related crimes, years after the state\u2019s highest criminal court ruled the office could not do so without an invitation from local prosecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas House on Tuesday sent a measure to Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s desk that would let the attorney general\u2019s office independently prosecute election-related crimes, years after the state\u2019s highest criminal court ruled the [&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\/9640"}],"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=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}