Watchman: TX Attorney General Responds After Texas Supreme Court Blocks Guaranteed Income Program; Now, Voter Buying Is Preferred by Elitists

By SRH,

The Texas Supreme Court issued an emergency stay, instructing Democrat-controlled Harris County not to implement a guaranteed income program and stopping the county from making payments until the court takes further action.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit earlier this month requesting an urgent order to prevent Uplift Harris, the guaranteed income program, from sending payments to citizens, claiming that it violates both the US and Texas constitutions. On Tuesday, the state supreme court granted his request, one day ahead of the scheduled payments.

The Texas Supreme Court stated in its temporary ruling that, without considering the merits, the court grants an administrative stay, prohibiting real parties in interest and their agents from making payments under the Uplift Harris program pending further order of this Court. “Without regard to the merits, the order prohibits the county from making payments pending further order.”

“Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, a Democrat, announced the program in 2023 that would randomly select 1,900 residents in the county to receive $500 cash payments for 18 months. Harris County received the $20.5 million slush fund for COVID-19 relief programs through the American Rescue Plan, which Congress passed in 2021.

By implementing another socialist program with funds meant for something else, how many times are the Democrats wasting federal taxpayers’ money? I doubt anyone could ever list all of them, and undoubtedly, no one seems to really care.

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Mr. Paxton responded to the Texas Supreme Court’s judgment, calling the cash payments “unlawful” and a violation of “our Constitution.”

“I’m pleased the Supreme Court of Texas has blocked Harris County from disbursing these unlawful payments,” Mr. Paxton said in a statement Tuesday. “I look forward to continuing to defend our Constitution and preventing this egregious misuse of taxpayer money.”

Officials in Harris County, which includes Houston, have defended the program, saying it is designed to support households in the county’s worst ZIP codes that are 200 percent below the federal poverty level ($15,060 for an individual, up to $31,200 for a family of four).

However, just before the state supreme court’s order, Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, a Democrat, wrote on social media that the county had “sent out the first $500 payments to recipients of our Uplift Harris guaranteed income program,” and that the county “will keep fighting to ensure we can continue making this life-changing investment in the people of Harris County.”

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