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Texas GOP’s Mid-Decade Map Push Stalls as Arrest Warrants Fail to Lure Fleeing Democrats

Republican leaders have escalated their quorum fight by seeking civil warrants to compel absent Democrats back for a vote on mid-decade congressional maps.

Joe Scarborough on Texas GOP
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Overview

  • Texas Republicans have proposed a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts outside the typical decennial cycle with the aim of flipping five Democratic seats.
  • More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers fled to Illinois and New York to deny Republicans a quorum and block the vote, triggering civil arrest warrants and daily fines.
  • Governor Greg Abbott filed suit on August 4 to strip absent legislators of their offices, and Speaker Dustin Burrows accused them of abandoning their constituents.
  • Senator John Cornyn asked the FBI to help locate and return the missing Democrats after the state issued civil arrest orders.
  • On Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough ridiculed the redistricting effort as 'idiotic' and warned that off-cycle map wars could spread to California and New York.