{"id":3459,"date":"2025-08-10T17:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:52:07","slug":"judge-issues-restraining-order-against-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3459","title":{"rendered":"Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Judge Blocks O\u2019Rourke\u2019s Fundraising for Fleeing Lawmakers<\/strong><br>A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order against Beto O\u2019Rourke and his nonprofit, Powered by People, for allegedly raising money illegally to support Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to stop GOP redistricting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Illegal Fundraising Claims<\/strong><br>Judge Megan Fahey called the group\u2019s activities \u201cunlawful fundraising practices\u201d involving travel, lodging, and fines. \u201cConsumers have and continue to suffer irreparable harm\u2026 through these unlawful acts,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Political Reactions<\/strong><br>O\u2019Rourke fired back, saying Paxton is targeting him because his group defends voting rights. \u201cHe wants to silence me and stop me from leading this organization.\u201d Paxton responded, \u201cYou lost in court because you\u2019re breaking the law and deceiving Texans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ongoing Legal Battle<\/strong><br>Paxton is also investigating the Texas Majority PAC. Meanwhile, O\u2019Rourke filed a countersuit, accusing Paxton of conducting a political \u201cfishing expedition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Blocks O\u2019Rourke\u2019s Fundraising for Fleeing LawmakersA Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order against Beto O\u2019Rourke and his nonprofit, Powered by People, for allegedly raising money illegally to support Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to stop GOP redistricting. Illegal Fundraising ClaimsJudge Megan Fahey called the group\u2019s activities \u201cunlawful fundraising practices\u201d involving travel, lodging,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}