Texas is about to shut down an election office in a heavily Democratic county that includes Houston less than two months before the city's mayoral election

t bans local municipalities from adopting or enforcing ordinances that go further than what's already allowed under state law. It requires cities to get permission from the Legislature if they want to enact rules that go beyond what's allowed in laws that affect agriculture, business and commerce, finance, insurance, labor, local government, natural resources, occupations and property.

A person or group could sue a municipality if they feel they've been negatively impacted by a local rule that conflicts with state law.

state rights maxxing

municipal law is super dysfunctional and most gibs-based in western countries.

State attorneys in their Aug. 9 motion to dismiss the lawsuit, argued cities lacked any standing to sue [...] They also said they didn't believe the law was unconstitutional because municipalities aren't people and don't have rights.