A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday ruled that a $1.7 trillion government funding bill was unconstitutionally passed in 2022 through a pandemic-era rule that allowed lawmakers in the House of Representatives to #vote by #proxy rather than in person.
U.S. District Judge James Wesley #Hendrix in Lubbock reached that conclusion as he granted Republican Texas Attorney General Ken #Paxton’s request to block a provision of that bill that gave #pregnant#workers stronger legal protections.
