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Texas Republican lawmakers returned to the Capitol without Democrats, who fled to block a vote on a GOP-drawn congressional ...
Gov. Greg Abbott asked the Texas Supreme Court this evening to declare vacant the seat of a key Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Gene Wu, one of the 50 quorum-breaking Democratic House members who fled the ...
Abbott warned that Democrats would have to remain out of state for years to prevent the redistricting legislation from passing.
The governor and attorney general have asked the court to find that Democratic lawmakers abandoned their seats when they left ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday ordered the arrest of the Democrats who fled the Lone Star State in an effort to halt ...
Texas Republicans on Tuesday failed again to move forward with their redistricting efforts despite issuing civil arrest ...
The warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators in question decamped to ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the state's highest court to vacate the seats of more than a dozen Texas House Democrats that left the state to break quorum in an attempt to prevent a vote ...
Paxton’s filings, known as quo warranto petitions, come after the House failed to reach a quorum on Friday – the third time ...
President Trump is weighing in on the Texas redistricting showdown as Democrats continue to block GOP efforts to move forward ...
In 2021, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the Texas Constitution allows for quorum breaks, but also allows for consequences to bring members back. Threats to arrest Texas Democrats ...
Senator John Cornyn is asking the FBI director to dispatch officers. Governor Greg Abbott is trying to vacate at least one ...