Responding to a late legal maneuver by a Texas House committee, a Travis County judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the execution of Robert Roberson III. The Texas Attorney General’s Office plans to appeal the order,

The state’s highest civil court said it wants a lower court to resolve a separation-of-powers issue raised by a group of Texas lawmakers who subpoenaed the death row inmate the night before he was set to be put to death.