Overview

• Texas Republicans will attempt another special-session vote Monday but remain one lawmaker short of the quorum needed to redraw congressional maps.
• Gov. Greg Abbott has said he will call 30-day special sessions indefinitely until absent Democrats return and has warned they will be arrested upon their arrival in Texas.
• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed lawsuits seeking to vacate the seats of 13 Democratic legislators for failing to fulfill their oath by blocking the quorum.
• Illinois, California and New York governors have vowed to launch their own mid-decade redistricting efforts in response to Texas’s plan.
• Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker dismissed GOP claims that the FBI could arrest the lawmakers in his state as lacking any legal authority and called the threats grandstanding.