Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton set a Friday deadline for Democratic state lawmakers to return to work in the Legislature or else face removal from office.
Mr. Paxton said he’ll ask a court to declare vacant the seats of every House Democrat who fled the state earlier this week in a bid to block a GOP plan to redraw congressional district lines.
The GOP-led Texas House voted Monday to issue civil arrest warrants for the missing Democrats. Sen. John Cornyn asked the FBI to help track down the lawmakers and carry out the arrests. He wants the FBI to investigate potential bribery.
Fifty one Democrats have fled to Illinois, Massachusetts and New York. All three of those states are heavily gerrymandered to favor Democrats.
The Fleeing Felons plan to stay there until the Texas special legislative session expires in two weeks.
Mr. Paxton, under orders from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, is now intent on replacing the missing lawmakers if they don’t return by Friday.
“Democrats have abandoned their offices by fleeing Texas,” Mr. Paxton said in a statement. “And a failure to respond to a call of the House constitutes a dereliction of duty as elected officials.”
If a judge agrees, Mr. Abbott would call for a special election to fill the seats.
Now it’s finally getting interesting !!!
Uh Oh, now the demonicRats are gonna quadruple down again and fabricate another fake crime our Texas Junk Yard Dog, Paxton has “allegedly” committed.
Fire them like Ron Regan did to the ATC that fused to return to work.
It’s all political theater, and at least four more will return while the rest play like they were heros …for effect. Yes, to normal Americans on both sides of the aisle, this is unacceptable behavior…but to the majority of the Dem base (the sexually perverted, under educated, drugged up, college radicals, illegals, etc.,) it gets them accolades. But Abbott should still push for the Supreme Court judgment to be able to declare their seats vacant, even if they return. That will end this childish trick in the future.
They are set to lose their jobs. I think 4 more will return, in addition to the first 2, and there will be a quorum.
Look at this RINO Cornyn, trying to play hero to save his campaign. Notice that he did not ask his rival Paxton for help. Paxton is scoring more points with this situation. We do not want or need the FBI to interfere and botch this too, that would be a very messy arrest, but Cornyn seems to want the FBI the steal Paxton’s thunder. Cornyn has been a longtime supporter of the corrupt RINOs in the Texas House who are close allies to the left, such as the drunkard former speaker who framed Paxton. He has no sincerity.
It would be hard for a judge to rule that the runaways are not in violation of the law which requires their removal.
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