Quote:[color=var(--neutral-foreground-rest)]Story by Alison Durkee, Forbes Staff • Yesterday 6:32 AM
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Texas is trying to invalidate the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill Congress passed in December, as state Attorney General Ken Paxton ® filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Biden Administration arguing the law wasn’t lawfully passed in the first place—his latest in a string of dozens of legal challenges taking aim at President Joe Biden.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court on November 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. Getty Images© Provided by Forbes

Key Facts
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of Texas, takes aim at Biden for signing the spending bill, arguing it didn’t lawfully pass the House of Representatives because less than half of the chamber’s members were actually present at the time.


The law passed the House thanks to proxy voting, allowing members who weren’t present to still vote, but Paxton argued proxy voting is unconstitutional and thus there wasn’t a quorum present in the House at the time to pass the bill.[/color]

Proxy voting was in place from 2020 until Republicans did away with it upon taking control of the House in January, and federal courts have already upheld the practice in separate litigation.

Texas specifically took aim at two provisions in the spending bill: A “Pregnant Workers Fairness Act” that requires employers (such as state governments) to make “reasonable accommodations” for employees’ pregnancies and childbirths and imposes harsher penalties if they don’t, and funding for a new pilot program that connects undocumented immigrants with social services.

The lawsuit asks the court to declare the spending bill unlawfully passed as a whole, and to issue orders saying Texas doesn’t have to participate in the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act or immigration pilot program.

The Justice Department has not yet responded to a request for comment.

(02-18-2023, 09:03 PM)pally Wrote: One day Texas will rebel against the idiots they have put into office....at least I hope they do. Unfortunately, the decidedly extreme right-wing Federal judges in Texas will probably uphold the law suit despite the lack of merit and get an injunction preventing its implementation.