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Texas Democrats remain in Illinois amid redistricting controversy

Texas Democrats are spending their first full day in Illinois Monday after leaving their state in an attempt to block a Republican redistricting plan.

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Texas governor threatens to remove Democrats who left state over Trump-backed redistricting

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they do not return after dozens of them left the state in an attempt to block the adoption of redrawn U.

Texas Democrats decamp to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting

In response, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to try to remove the Democrats from the state Legislature and said some of them may even be "felons."

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Pritzker says redrawing Illinois districts "on the table" as he welcomes Texas Democrats fighting gerrymandering

As Gov. JB Pritzker welcomed Texas Democrat state lawmakers who left to prevent the Republican-led general assembly from ...

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Texas Democrats arrive in Illinois to block vote back home on redrawn House maps sought by Trump

A standoff in Texas over redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump sharply escalated Sunday when dozens of ...

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Texas Democrats Who Fled Respond to Greg Abbott's Legal Warning

Texas Democrats who left the state in a bid to block redrawn U.S. House maps have responded to Republican Governor Greg ...

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Can lawmakers legally flee the state? Here’s what we know about Texas law on quorum-breaking

Is the Democrats’ decision to break quorum illegal? No, it's not. But they could still be detained by state troopers in ...

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