Texas Attorney General sues to remove UT’s state representative, other Austin area legislators

The Gubernatorial Tug-of-War Over the Fugitive Texas Dems Little More

I’m assuming you’ve already seen coverage of the Democratic Texas state legislators who fled to Illinois to prevent a Republican-backed redrawing of congressional district lines in their home state. Their absence means their Legislature doesn’t have enough members to legally conduct business.

Texas Attorney General sues to remove UT’s state representative, other Austin area legislators

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the state’s highest court on Aug. 8 to remove 13 Democrats from the Texas House of Representatives, arguing the lawmakers abandoned their offices by leaving the state during efforts to create new congressional maps.  Lawmakers, including state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, who represents UT and West Campus, and other Austin-area state legislators, such as state representatives John Bucy and Vikki Goodwin, left the s…