Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Thursday demanding that an Illinois court enforce the Republican-issued arrest warrants against Democrats who left the Lone Star State to break quorum.
The suit was filed against nearly three dozen Texas House Democrats who traveled to Illinois in order to avoid returning to the special legislative session ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX). Their exodus is part of an effort to oppose the Republican-led middecade redistricting efforts in Texas.
Paxton accused the absent lawmakers of “harming the good order of Texas’s representative democracy” by breaking quorum and refusing to return to the Texas Capitol in Austin.
“This court must give full faith and credit to warrants duly issued by the Texas House of Representatives that compel these
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