Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking a temporary restraining order for an El Paso court that blocked his prosecution of former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s political group. O’Rourke’s PAC funded Texas Democrats who protested the state GOP’s mid-decade redistricting agenda.
Paxton filed an emergency application for the order with a Tarrant County court with jurisdiction over the case, his office said on Thursday. Two days earlier, an El Paso judge temporarily barred Paxton from prosecuting O’Rourke’s Powered by People organization or otherwise filing legal action seeking to revoke the Democratic group’s charter.
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