The Texas Republican Sadan returned to the state capital on Monday for the session-without Democratic MPs who have left the state in a bid to block the vote on a heavy GOP-Pasandida Congress map.
The village. Greg Abbott said Dozens of them ran away In an attempt to block the redistribution of US House Maps in a final-recorte President Trump Wants before the mid -term elections of 2026, although the legal justification for him is unstable.
State House Democrats went to Illinois or New York on Sunday, and Abbott gave him a 24 -hour ultimatum, which makes a widening to come home Battle on Congress map It began in Texas, but is drawn into the Democratic Governor, who has swimming the possibility of running away their own state map in vengeance. However, their options are limited.
At the center of a moving deadlock, Mr. Trump is chasing five and GOP-inclined Congress seats before next year, which will increase its party’s possibility of preserving its party’s own Slim US House majority.
New Congress maps prepared by Texas Republican Create five new Republican-Flowing seatsRepublican is currently 25 of the 38 seats in the state.
The Texas House of Representatives had a vote on the proposed maps for Monday in the House of Representatives, but it cannot move forward if most Democratic members deny a quorum, which do not show. After a group of Democrats landed in Chicago on Sunday, he was welcomed by Illinois village JB Pritzkar, but refused to say how long he was ready to stay out of Texas.
Texas House Democratic Cocks leader State Rape Jean Wu said, “Whatever we do. What he looks. We don’t know.”
But legislative walkouts often delay the passage of only one bill, which included in 2021, when many of the Texas House Democrats left the kingdom for 38 days in protest against the new voting sanctions. Once they returned, Republicans were still crossing that remedy.
Four years later, Abbott is taking a far more aggressive stance and rapidly warns Democrats that he will try to remove them from the office if they do not rebuild at home on Monday afternoon. She cited a non-negotiable 2021 legal opinion issued by Republican Attorney General Kane Paxton, suggesting that a court could determine that an MLA seized her office.
He also suggested that MPs may have been of hooliganism by raising money to help pay for fine.
Abbott said, “This Trueness is now over.”
In response, House Democrats released a four-word statement: “Come and take it.”
Vote status
Legalists cannot pass the bill at least two-thirds of the 150-member Texas House without the bill. Democrats held 62 seats in the majority-Republican Chamber and Josh Rush Nisanson, spokesperson of House Democratic Cocks, said at least 51 states left.
Republican House President Dustin Baroz said that the chamber will still be found as per Monday afternoon plan.
“If a quorum does not exist, all options will be on the table, to borrow recent talkting points from some of my Democrat colleagues.” He posted on X.
Who is Paxon American running for the SenateOn X said that Democrats who “try and run like cowards, should be arrested immediately, and should be brought back to the capital.”
Penalty for not showing
There is a civil violation of legislative regulations by Texas MPs refusing to show. The Texas Supreme Court held in 2021 that the house leaders had the right to “appearance physically”, 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.
The quorum brake will also delay the votes on relief and new warning systems in Texas in view of last month’s horrific floods in which at least 136 people were killed. The Democrats called for votes on the flood response before redistribution and criticized Republican for not doing so.
