{"id":71615,"date":"2025-08-14T00:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71615"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:58:52","slug":"texas-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71615","title":{"rendered":"Texas Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-455.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-455.png 526w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-455-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-455-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A political earthquake just hit the Lone Star State \u2014 and the shockwaves are being felt across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has officially asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove Houston Rep. Gene Wu from office \u2014 the current Chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Why? Because Wu and over 50 House Democrats left the state, blocking a vote on redistricting legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbott called it \u201cabandonment of office.\u201d Wu said it was \u201ca fulfillment of his oath.\u201d The courts? They\u2019re now in the hot seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The redistricting plan, strongly pushed by former President Trump, could hand the GOP five new congressional seats. But Democrats are fighting back with a dramatic quorum-denial tactic \u2014 leaving the state to shut down the legislative session<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbott\u2019s emergency legal filing cited \u201c500 years of common law\u201d and invoked an obscure legal provision called quo warranto, used to argue that Wu has forfeited his position. Meanwhile, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pushed back on Abbott, saying only the AG or local prosecutors have that authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Paxton didn\u2019t stop there. He threatened legal action against the missing lawmakers himself if they don\u2019t return by the end of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock, a known Abbott ally, now leads the all-Republican court \u2014 and this showdown could set a massive precedent for the future of political protest and legislative power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens if the court agrees with Abbott?<br>Gene Wu\u2019s seat could be declared vacant. That means a special election\u2026 and potentially a much redder Texas map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t just about one Democrat. This is about how far a Governor can go \u2014 and whether the courts will side with power or protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71539\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political earthquake just hit the Lone Star State \u2014 and the shockwaves are being felt across the country. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has officially asked the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71617,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71615\/revisions\/71617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}