Texas village. Greg Abbott on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to remove one of the state house Democratic leaders.
Abbott filed an emergency petition with the Texas Supreme Court for Wu, which represents Houston and acts as a Democratic Cocks Chair, removed from the office. On Sunday, the Governor threatened to remove the Democratic MPs from the post if they did not attend the session of the house on Monday afternoon.
Abbott wrote in a statement, “They have not returned and have not met quorum requirements.” Texas House Democrats gave up their duty for Texas, and must result in consequences. “
Abbott claims that Wu has left the Democrats, along with his elected position and his actions, who left the kingdom, “abandoning his office, justifying his removal.”
The governor also accused Wu and other house Democrats, “Get some benefits in exchange for leaving a vote and get some benefits, further supporting their removal and bribery allegations from the office.”
Abbott has argued in the past that if they do not show, Democrats can be legally removed from the office. He cited a non-negotiable 2021 opinion by Texas’s Attorney General Kane Pasteon, stating that “a district court could determine that an MLA has confiscated his office due to abandonment and can remove the MLA from the office, making a vacancy.”
But Mark Jones, Professor of Political Science of a Rice University, Told CBS News The only way to remove Texas’s law maker is by two-thirds of the Vallet Box and two-thirds of the vote.
Texas break quorum in an attempt to block the Democrat vote
In the weekend, dozens of Texas Democrats State ran away to block one vote Republican -backed Congress’s redistribution scheme President Trump Wants before the mid -term elections of 2026, increase a deadlock that has stopped the legislative session.
The absence of Democrats meant that Texas House of Representatives had not enough members to debate a bill to resume the Congress districts of the state to add five seats in favor of Republican. This inspired a Republican -backed resolution for his civil arrest.
Abbott then ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to “detect, arrest and return to any house member, which gave up Texas to give up his duty.” However, Texas DPS has no jurisdiction outside the state. A civilian arrest can be returned to MPs in Capital.
There is a civil violation of legislative regulations by Texas MPs refusing to show. During the previous walkout by the Democratic MLAs, the Texas Supreme Court held in 2021 that house leaders had the right to “appearance” the missing members, but no Democrats were forcibly brought back to the state after the warrant that year. Two years later, Republican pushed through new rules that allow daily fines of $ 500 to MPs who do not show for work as punishment.
Rape. Wu goes responds to Abbott’s trial
In a statement by CBS Texas, Wu said that “the governor denying a quorum was not abandoned by the office”, but it was “fulfilling my oath”.
Wu said in his statement, “This office is not related to Greg Abbott, and it is not for me.” “This house belongs to the people of the district 137, who chose me. I took the oath of the Constitution, not for the agenda of a politician, and I will not be going to break that oath.”
Wu also said that Governor has thwarted the people of Texas and “are using courts to punish those who refused to fail with them”.
Wu’s statement reads, “When a governor conspires with an insult to the RAM through a racist Germander map, my constitutional duty is not an interested participant,” reads Wu’s statement. “When he gives the governor 137 dead Texas and their families to take hostage, my moral duty is to give a sound to the alarm – somehow it is necessary.”
Abbott wants the Supreme Court to issue a decision by 5 pm on Thursday.
Texas Democratic Party President Kendall Scudder said in a statement, “Greg Abbott House Democratic Cocks Leaders are trying to silence the rape. By making Jean Wu a weapon, Jean Wu was weapons,” Kendall Schudar, President of the Texas Democratic Party, said in a statement. “This is a complete violation of the separation of powers for the governor of this state, to think that they have the right to unilaterally to remove duly elected officials because they disagree with using the constitutionally protected procedural security measures.”
The Texas Solicitor General also said that if the House Democrats do not return till 1 pm on Friday, when Speaker Dustin Baroz set the House to hold his next session, the Attorney General will pursue all available judicial remedies.
