US EditionKen Paxton asks Texas Supreme Court to expel 13 House Democrats over redistricting standoff
- Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Texas Supreme Court on Friday to expel 13 House Democrats who fled Texas to block a congressional map.
- The Democrats left Sunday to prevent passage of a redistricting plan that would gain five Republican seats amid ongoing quorum breaks since the 1870s.
- Paxton argued the members abandoned office by refusing to return while the House failed quorum three times this week and fined absences $500 daily.
- Paxton asserted that these lawmakers deliberately left to halt all legislative proceedings and warned that their out-of-state defiance must not be allowed to continue unchecked.
- If the Court expels them, Gov. Greg Abbott plans to call special elections to replace the lawmakers, affecting potential races like Rep. James Talarico's Senate run.
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Texas AG files suit in Tehama County Superior Court to force absent Democrats home
The redistricting controversy in Texas has reached Tehama County. Shawn Cowles, an attorney representing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, filed suit in Tehama County Superior Court on Friday, looking to force the return of Democrat legislators, Rhetta Andrews Bowers (District 113), Gina Hinojosa (District 49), Ann Johnson (District 134), Ray Lopez (District 125), Mary Ann Perez (District 144), and Vincent “Vince” Perez (District 77). The suit …
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court seeking the removal of 13 Democratic congressmen who have been out of Texas since last Sunday, thus avoiding…
Texas AG Ken Paxton Moves to Declare Every Runaway Democrat Seat Vacant - News Addicts
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed what he calls a “historic” lawsuit with the Texas Supreme Court seeking to declare all 13 seats held by fleeing Democrats vacant after they skipped the state to block GOP-led redistricting. “These cowards deliberately sabotaged the constitutional process and violated the oath they swore to uphold,” Paxton said […]
PBS Attacks 'Corrosion of Democracy' As Texas Redistricts
New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart were greatly disturbed on Friday’s PBS News Hour at Texas’s mid-decade redistricting efforts, calling them part of the “corrosion of democracy” and “cheating by legal means,” and insist this is something worse than standard gerrymandering. Host Geoff Bennett began with Brooks, “Democrats say this amounts to cheating. What do you make of this effort by Democrats to flee the s…
Texas attorney general moves to oust Democrats from office over walkout - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
HOUSTON — Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to remove 13 Democratic state representatives from office, saying they had abandoned their seats when they left the state to avoid voting on a redrawn congressional map pushed by President Donald Trump.
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