{"id":249347,"date":"2026-04-14T15:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249347\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:14:21","slug":"federal-judge-stops-corpus-christi-council-vote-on-mayors-removal-in-temporary-restraining-order-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249347\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge stops Corpus Christi Council vote on mayor\u2019s removal in temporary restraining order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order on Monday stopping the City of Corpus Christi from taking immediate action to suspend Mayor Paulette Guajardo ahead of a scheduled council vote, according to a court order from the Southern District of Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mayor-attorney-urges-corpus-christi-161852122.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mayor\u2019s attorney urges Corpus Christi City Council members to halt removal hearing process;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mayor\u2019s attorney urges Corpus Christi City Council members to halt removal hearing process&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor\u2019s attorney urges Corpus Christi City Council members to halt removal hearing process<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.txs.uscourts.gov\/content\/united-states-district-judge-george-c-hanks-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Federal Judge George Hanks Jr.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Federal Judge George Hanks Jr.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Federal Judge George Hanks Jr.<\/a> order pauses any vote or enforcement action tied to the mayor\u2019s suspension until further court proceedings are held.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A City Council meeting is still scheduled for Tuesday at 11:30 a.m., where an agenda item includes discussion and possible action on the mayor\u2019s potential removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, the judge ruled the city must first provide a constitutionally sufficient hearing before any suspension can move forward, citing due process protections under the Fourteenth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The court\u2019s decision keeps the current situation in place while the case moves forward. The city is required to file a response by Tuesday at noon, with a hearing set for Wednesday morning on a request for a longer-term injunction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The temporary restraining order remains in effect until April 27 unless extended by the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order on Monday stopping the City of Corpus Christi from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3029,155,157,156,25997,92093,6210,94710,94709,2954,67458],"class_list":["post-249347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-city-of-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-court-order","tag-court-proceedings","tag-federal-judge","tag-george-hanks-jr","tag-immediate-action","tag-paulette-guajardo","tag-temporary-restraining-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}