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Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee wins court order temporarily banning enforcement of part of Texas voting law

By Staff reports | Tuesday, Feb 15, 2022 @ 9:47am

HOUSTON — On Friday, a federal court in Texas issued a preliminary injunction in Longoria v. Paxton, a lawsuit in which Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other officials over the provision in Texas’s new voting law (SB1) that make it a crime for public officials or election officials to solicit people to apply to vote by mail, a press release states.