Ken Paxton Wants Beto O'Rourke Jailed Over Continued Fundraising For Walkout
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"[H]e still thinks he’s above the law, so I’m working to put him behind bars," the Texas attorney general said.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a judge to jail former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), accusing him of continuing to fundraise for the Texas Democrats’ walkout in violation of a court order.
In a motion filed in Tarrant County, Paxton asked that O’Rourke be locked up in light of “disparaging” statements he made about the temporary injunction and his continued violation of the order, which blocked O’Rourke from fundraising for the 54 Texas Democrats who’ve left the state to deny Republicans a quorum to vote on GOP-friendly redistricting efforts.
″[H]e still thinks he’s above the law, so I’m working to put him behind bars,” Paxton said of O’Rourke, who represented Texas as a Democrat in Congress from 2013 to 2019 and now leads the political action committee Powered by People after failed runs for the Senate, White House and Texas governor’s seat.
The attorney general pointed to comments O’Rourke made at a rally Saturday in Fort Worth, telling the crowd, “There are no refs in this game, fuck the rules.” But those remarks were made as part of his call for blue states to counteract Republicans’ redistricting efforts by redrawing their lines in Democrats’ favor ― not in the context of violating the court order Paxton secured against him last week.
Paxton’s motion also pointed to O’Rourke’s remarks at that rally telling the crowd that “one of the worst things that we can do to Ken Paxton is to choose to donate to have the backs” of the Democrats who walked out, urging them to text a number that redirects to an ActBlue fundraiser.
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