{"id":12384,"date":"2025-08-17T02:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-expands-paxton-restraining-order-against-orourke-over-texas-dems-fundraising\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T02:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:21:44","slug":"judge-expands-paxton-restraining-order-against-orourke-over-texas-dems-fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-expands-paxton-restraining-order-against-orourke-over-texas-dems-fundraising\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge expands Paxton restraining order against O\u2019Rourke over Texas Dems fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge on Saturday expanded Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton&rsquo;s (R) restraining order against former Rep. Beto O&rsquo;Rourke (D-Texas) and his political organization, Powered by People, over its fundraising for state Democratic lawmakers who fled Texas amid the redistricting battle.&nbsp; A Tarrant County judge ruled that O&rsquo;Rourke and his political group are barred from sending&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5456338-judge-expands-paxton-restraining-order-against-orourke-over-texas-dems-fundraising\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge on Saturday expanded Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton&rsquo;s (R) restraining order against former Rep. Beto O&rsquo;Rourke (D-Texas) and his political organization, Powered by People, over its fundraising for state Democratic lawmakers who fled Texas amid the redistricting battle.&nbsp; A Tarrant County judge ruled that O&rsquo;Rourke and his political group are barred from sending&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}