{"id":132765,"date":"2025-08-09T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132765\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:00:09","slug":"texas-judge-halts-beto-orourkes-fundraising-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132765\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas judge halts Beto O’Rourke’s fundraising for Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday, halting Beto O\u2019Rourke’s fundraising efforts for Democratic lawmakers. <\/p>\n

The decision came after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the former Democratic congressman and his political action committee, accusing them of misleading donors to cover expenses for lawmakers who fled Texas.<\/p>\n

RELATED | Judge blocks Beto O\u2019Rourke from funding Texas Democrats fleeing state over redistricting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

O\u2019Rourke had been raising funds for Texas Democrats who left the state to block a vote on a redistricting map. The judge’s order prevents him from raising money intended for these lawmakers for 14 days.<\/p>\n

RELATED | Texas files complaints to arrest absent Democratic lawmakers in California<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In her ruling, the judge stated that the block is “in the public interest.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday, halting Beto O\u2019Rourke’s fundraising efforts…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,23231,7033,12735,18880,80433,22204,7202,7203,37962,358,80432,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-132765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-beto-orourke","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-fundraising","12":"tag-ken-paxton","13":"tag-political-action-committee","14":"tag-redistricting","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-temporary-restraining-order","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-texas-judge","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115001060583691403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}