Texas AG Paxton Moves To Jail Beto O'Rourke!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today, August 12, 2025. God bless you and yours, no matter where you are in the world. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks arrest of Beto O'Rourke. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks Beto O'Rourke's arrest for defying a court order. Quote, it's time to lock him up. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has had enough of Beto O'Rourke's open defiance of the law in a blistering emergency motion for contempt. Paxton is asking a Tarrant County court to hold a failed Democratic candidate in contempt and throw him in jail for brazenly violating a court order less than 24 hours after it was issued on August 8, 2025. Paxton won a temporary restraining order blocking O'Rourke and his far-left group powered by people from raising money through Act Blue for the personal expenses of runaway Texas Democrats who abandoned their Texas House duties. The court order specifically prohibits fundraising for travel, hotel stays, dining, and paying fines for legislators. Who skipped work to block Republican legislation. According to court documents, Beto ignored the order almost instantaneously. At a rally in Fort Worth the very next day, O'Rourke openly mocked the ruling, telling the crowd, quote, listen, you may say to yourself, well, those aren't the rules. O'Rourke said, adding, there are no refs in this game. F the rules, we're going to win whatever it takes, we're going to take this to them in every way that we can, end quote. Not only did Beto O'Rourke verbally taunt the court, he doubled down on the exact behavior the judge had barred, flashing, quote, Texas fight to 20377 on the live stream. Directing supporters straight to ActBlue donations page for the same prohibited purposes. The motion details how Beto also posted the fundraiser's link on X and repeated the solicitation at a town hall in Abilene, proving this was no accident. It was a deliberate middle finger to the court of Texas, per the Attorney General. Paxton's filing asks the court to hit O'Rourke with a $500 fine for each violation and jail him until he pledges to obey the court's rulings, according to the motion, quote, in light of defendant O'Rourke's repeated statements disparaging this court's temporary restraining order and announcing his intent to continue violating the order. Because F the rules, the state requests defendant O'Rourke be confined to jail unless and until he demonstrates a willingness to abide by the court's orders pending the outcome of this lawsuit. God bless you and yours, folks. Please share and subscribe, and always remember, anything's possible in a Bizarro world.