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In this week’s episode, Matthew and Eleanor ask University of Houston law professor David Froomkin to help them break down the legal cases seeking to remove 13 Democrats from the Texas House.
“The Beto Bribe buyouts that were bankrolling the runaway Democrats have been officially stopped,” said Attorney General Paxton.
When members abandoned the State and broke quorum, Texas House Speaker Burrows issued arrest warrants pursuant to his authority under Article III, Section 10 of the Texas Constitution.
The attorney general accused the organization of running a financial influence scheme that convinced Texas Democrats to leave the state.
At least 50 House Democrats have left the state to prevent the chamber from obtaining a quorum.
The warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators in question decamped to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.
More than 50 Democrats left the state Sunday afternoon so the Texas House would not have a quorum — aiming to halt all legislative activity for the remainder of the special session slated to end later this month.
A graduate of Harvard Law School and an elected member of the American Law Institute, Nielson was an appellate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a law clerk to Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Texans will vote on these amendments as a part of the November 4 Election.
Approximately $10 million in grants are available using federal Help America Vote Act funds.
The proposal would require the Texas Legislature to return for a special session to carry out the rare move of reshaping the state’s political boundaries mid-decade.
The Legislature wrapped up without the same drama that defined the end of the last two sessions, with state GOP leaders checking off nearly everything on their to-do lists.
The Senate Substitute for HB 5138 ensures that the OAG can enforce Texas’s election laws.
If it becomes law, the bill would define sex based on reproductive organs and require state documents and policies to comply with that framework.
The legislation had only pertained to countries the government deemed national security threats. A last-minute change would let the governor add more countries to the ban.
The county judge, two city council members and others are accused of vote harvesting.
The U.S. House passed a bill Thursday, led by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, to require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
Lawmakers will debate whether to invest more into new water supplies or repairing old, leaking pipes around Texas.
Voters who don’t provide proof of citizenship would be placed on a separate voter roll and could cast ballots only in U.S. House and Senate races.
House Bill 239 would mandate that family violence shelters, prisons and bathrooms and locker rooms of state and county buildings are segregated by state definitions of sex.