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The Dallas Morning News on MSN · 1h

Texas AG Ken Paxton files lawsuit in California to enforce arrests of absent House Democrats

Ken Paxton is asking that California law enforcement officers be allowed to arrest Texas House Democrats who are staying in the state, according to a lawsuit the attorney general filed Friday. It’s the second time this week Paxton has petitioned a state to allow civil arrest warrants issued by the Texas House to be enforced outside of state lines.

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 21h

Ken Paxton asks Texas Supreme Court to expel 13 House Democrats over redistricting standoff

Gov. Greg Abbott previously asked the court to expel Rep. Gene Wu, the House Democratic leader. Paxton disputed the governor’s authority to make the request.

Chicago Tribune · 23h

Texas Republicans ask Illinois court to order arrest of House Democrats who fled state as part of remap battle

Texas’ Republican attorney general and a GOP Illinois state senator filed a petition in more conservative Adams County rather than where Texas lawmakers are located in suburban Chicago.

GOP, Texas and Democratic state

'This BS is un-American': Texas Democratic Caucus Chair rips GOP over gerrymander

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is now suing to remove from office more than a dozen Democrats who left the state to block the GOP’s rigged congressional map proposal. State Rep. Gene Wu, the Texas House Democratic Caucus chair,

The Washington Post on MSN · 1d

Texas Democrats absent again, as GOP threatens expulsion lawsuit

During a brief session Friday, state House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) announced the chamber did not achieve a quorum, stalling business

Talking Points Memo on MSN · 1d

Abbott Threatens to Add Even More GOP Seats in Texas If Dems Don’t Return

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to expand Republicans’ power grab over the state’s congressional maps even further. If... As we’ve noted, Gov. Abbott earlier this week leapfrogged his own attorney general in trying to get at least one Texas Democrat’s seat declared vacant.

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The FBI has been asked to help locate Texas House Democrats. One state lawmaker says officials would be breaking the law

The chair of the Texas House Democratic caucus remained defiant Thursday in the face of one US senator’s bid to enlist the ...

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Texas House fails to reach quorum as Democratic walkout hits sixth day

Texas Republicans need a quorum to pass new congressional maps that would send more Republicans to the U.S. House of ...

Beto O'Rourke heads to Fort Worth to rally against Texas GOP redistricting 'power grab'

O'Rourke's Powered by People group has become a top funder for Democrats who broke quorum to prevent a vote on the maps, but ...

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Texas Republicans fire up the rhetoric, file lawsuits seeking to remove House Democrats trying to block mid-decade redistricting

On Friday afternoon, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit that asks the Texas Supreme Court to remove 13 House ...

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Texas Gov. Abbott claims FBI is going to search for Texas House Democrats

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott claimed that he had heard that the FBI will search for Texas House Democrats who left the state ...

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California rushes to plan a still unscheduled election in US House seats standoff with Texas

Texas and California — the two most populous U.S. states — are the leading actors in a back-and-forth push to remake the ...

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'The political cost of your absence is rising' | No quorum in Texas House on Friday

Dozens of Texas House Democrats fled the state last Sunday to stop consideration of a proposed congressional redistricting ...

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Watch Live: The Texas House is set to reconvene Friday as Democrats continue standoff, head to California ahead of redistricting hearing

After the Texas House failed to make a quorum on Tuesday, Texas Democrats were told to return to Austin by Friday or face ...

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