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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Judge restrains Beto O’Rourke’s group from sending funds to Democrats outside Texas

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Beto O’Rourke speaks during the Fight the Trump Takeover rally in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. Photograph: Rodolfo Gonzalez/AP

A Texas judge has expanded a restraining order against former congressman Beto O’Rourke and his political organization over its fundraising for Democratic state lawmakers who left Texas to prevent a legislative session on congressional redistricting.

Tarrant county judge Megan Fahey, a member of the conservative Federalist Society and past president of the Fort Worth Republican Women’s Club, said in a four-page order published on Saturday that O’Rourke and his political group, Powered by People, are barred from sending money out of Texas.

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