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The Texas House again failed to reach a quorum today as Democrats continue their standoff in their bid to block Republicans’ ...
Using the FBI to track down AWOL Texas Democrats is an unnecessary expansion of federal law enforcement authority.
The ruling is a victory, albeit potentially a temporary one, for Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who sought the temporary restraining order.
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has said the chamber will reconvene at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) to move ahead with ...
In court papers filed Friday, the Democrats argued that their quorum-breaking tactic is an affirmation of their legislative duties, not an abdication of it.
The legislators who fled the state face a daily fine, but they have also left behind their day jobs in Texas to grind the ...
The statehouse has been without quorum all week for its special session to debate redistricting Texas' congressional map.
Republicans had warned they would escalate efforts to end the nearly weeklong holdout if defiant Democrats do not return to ...
Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a Republican plan for congressional redistricting are pleading for ...
Shame, however, is not an emotion experienced by many politicians these days, least of all ones who answer to Donald Trump.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is now suing to remove from office more than a dozen Democrats who left the state to block the GOP ...
Texas Republicans on Friday sought to increase the pressure on more than 50 Democratic lawmakers who left the state to ...