Texas House reconvenes without quorum as Democrats flee state
Texas House reconvenes without quorum as Democrats flee state
Texas house pushes forward on redistricting as Democrats vow to fight
Texas Democrats in the state legislature denied its speaker a legislative quorum Monday by leaving the state, forestalling plans proposed by the White House to redistrict Texas’s congressional lines to more greatly favor Republicans.
Democrats hold 62 of the 150 seats in the legislature’s lower chamber, so as long as at least 51 members remain out of Austin, the Texas legislature cannot move forward with any votes, including a plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps to give Republicans five more seats in Congress.
In an extraordinary escalation, the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, said he he had ordered the Texas department of public safety to “locate, arrest and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans”
Note that last part. That's why they went to a different State. Texas law enforcement has no jurisdiction outside Texas.
Quick question: What condition is the Rule of Law in the United States right now?
Do you honestly think jurisdiction has any meaning to a rising fascist oligarchy?
But here you tut-tut 'But it's illllleeeeeegaaaaaallll!' when that has NEVER stopped fascists before
Texas isn't going to be sending their police to Illinois to kidnap people and then traffic them across State lines without Illinois law enforcement at least getting in the way.