TA Texas judge granted Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) a temporary restraining order in his suit against former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) and his political group, Powered by People. The ruling came just hours after Paxton sued claiming unlawful fundraising activity to help Democratic state House members who fled the state to stall a

These cowards deliberately sabotaged the constitutional process and violated the oath they swore to uphold,” Paxton said in a statement.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the state's highest court to vacate the seats of more than a dozen Texas House Democrats that left the state to break quorum in an attempt to prevent a vote on redrawn congressional maps.