#RepGeneWu calling out the lies this morning.
Mike Johnson says affordability is their focus. That’s a lie.
Sacramento families are drowning — rent is up, wages are flat, debt is crushing households.
“The shit has hit the fan.” —Rep. Wu.
I’m running to bring receipts to Congress. No more lies.
Whether Abbott can in fact name the replacements for elected members of the state Legislature is open to dispute. Charles "Rocky" Rhodes, a constitutional law professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, said flatly that is not in Abbott's power. "If you think about the idea of Separation of Powers, you would see why he doesn't have that authority," Rhodes said. "We don't want the governor to be able to handpick members of the Legislature. That sounds like something the King of England would have done, which would, of course, be contrary to any basic notion of Separation of Powers." Political scientist Brandon Rottinghaus of the University of Houston said that Texas courts have traditionally treated the question of abandonment of office with a very high level of scrutiny. "The courts would have to reverse themselves and re-litigate some of those issues if they were to come down on the side that says being absent from office is tantamount to a legislative vacancy," Rottinghaus said. Rhodes said it's also not a given that courts would rule in Abbott and Paxton's favor on the question of whether Democratic lawmakers have abandoned their offices. "The Democratic lawmakers have made no indication at all that they're abandoning their office," Rhodes said. "They are just engaging in a technique to try to shut the Legislature down, a technique that is contemplated by the Texas Constitution and has been used by members of the Texas Legislature on several occasions during our history."
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Abbott cited a non-legally binding “opinion” written by the notorious biblical (per KP's soon-to-be ex-wife) and temporal lawbreaker #AGKenPaxton as the basis for his lawsuit.
Greg Abbott is stunt queening.
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Meanwhile, back in #Abbottabad, aka #Texas…
Today, #GregAbbott filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court of Texas “seeking the removal from office of state #RepGeneWu (D-Houston), chair of the House Democratic Caucus, whom he styled the “ringleader” of the quorum break.”
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