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- Texas Senate urging the Court of Criminal Appeals to reconsider a decision stripping the Office of the Attorney General of longstanding powers to prosecute election fraud.
- The December case saw the CCA, Texas’ highest court on criminal matters, declare it unconstitutional for the Attorney General to prosecute such cases. The court asserted that while the A.G. is in the state’s executive branch, local district attorneys are in the judicial branch, and so stated that the A.G. cannot make those prosecutions.
- The briefing filed with the court argues that this is a flawed reading of the state’s constitution, and doesn’t mesh with numerous other state and federal court rulings dealing with the separation of powers.
