Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion for contempt against Beto O’Rourke, accusing him of violating a temporary restraining order blocking him from fundraising to help cover the cost of Democrats’ quorum break.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott filed a reply Saturday in ongoing litigation aimed at removing a top Democrat from office, just one of many legal challenges Republicans are throwing at Democrats who left the state.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking California to enforce arrest warrants against a delegation of quorum-breaking Democratic lawmakers.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton followed through Friday on his threat to ask courts to remove quorum-breaking Democrats from office.
With Texas Democrats using the most powerful tool available to the minority party – a quorum break – Republicans are furious they don’t have enough members present to hold a vote on their gerrymandered map that could add five more GOP seats in Congress in 2026.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton both want the courts to remove Democrats from office and declare their seats vacant, but they are sparring publicly over how to do it.
A group of Texas Democratic lawmakers are blocking Republicans from passing a new congressional map that could send five more GOP representatives to Congress – and now Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) will ask courts to declare the Democrats’ seats vacant.
The Texas House voted to issue arrest warrants for Democrats who fled the state to block the GOP from taking a vote on its congressional redistricting plan.
A group of Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday, activating their emergency plan to block a hastily-drawn Republican congressional map.
Republicans released their proposed Texas congressional map, in a plan that could set off a consequential redistricting battle between red states and blue states.