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Texas, Illinois and Democrats

WTTW News · 3d

Illinois Judge Rejects Request to Arrest and Return Texas Democrats as Lawmakers Plot Comeback

Judge Scott Larson said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton “failed to present a legal basis” for the Illinois court to consider civil arrest warrants filed in a different state.

Chicago Tribune · 9d

Texas Republicans ask Illinois court to order arrest of House Democrats who fled state as part of remap battle

Texas’ Republican attorney general and a GOP Illinois state senator filed a petition in more conservative Adams County rather than where Texas lawmakers are located in suburban Chicago.

The Dallas Morning News on MSN · 3d

Illinois judge rules against Ken Paxton in his effort to have Texas House Democrats arrested

Illinois law enforcement officers cannot arrest Texas House Democrats who have been staying in the northern state in protest of a congressional redistricting map, a state judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling,

Texas, Democrats and Republicans

ABC7 Chicago on MSN · 14h

Texas Democrats join rally downtown Chicago to protest Republican redistricting

A crowd of hundreds of people gathered in Millennium Park on Saturday in a show of solidarity with the Texas House Democrats who fled to Illinois to protest congressional redistricting in their state.

POLITICO on MSN · 1d

Texas Democrats who left the state over redistricting will take part in national demonstration

Those Democrats, who are expected to return to Texas on Monday, continue to argue that Texas’ redistricting plans are unfairly taking place in the middle of the decade, instead of in conjunction with a national once-a-decade census.

Texas Public Radio · 3h

Thousands rally at Texas Capitol against Republican-backed congressional redistricting plan

About 5,000 people gathered at the Capitol on Saturday to protest President Trump and the Texas Legislature's plan to redraw the state's congressional districts to give Republicans more seats in the U.

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FBI agrees to help find Texas Democrats in Illinois, but Gov. JB Pritzker calls move ‘grandstanding’

Gov. JB Pritzker attempted to tamp down the federal law enforcement involvement, describing it as “a lot of grandstanding.” ...

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Some Texas Democrats leave Illinois as second special session in their state begins

Some Texas House Democrats confirmed they were leaving after the first special session in the Lone Star state ended Friday, ...

11don MSN

Texas Democrats staying in Illinois evacuated over bomb threat

Texas Democrats staying in Illinois were evacuated from their hotel on Wednesday morning over a potential bomb threat, ...

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Democrats unite in effort to counter Trump’s push for red-state redistricting

There is no guarantee Democrats can prevent the Republican-powered redistricting, just as Democrats on Capitol Hill have not ...

The Texas Tribune6d

Paxton, Burrows ask Illinois court to enforce Texas arrest warrants against Democrats who left the state

The attorney general is calling on the “full faith and credit” clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says states should ...

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As Texas Democrats plan Illinois departure, lawmaker hopes daughters will one day see ‘dad fought back’

John Bucy’s older daughter “seemed a little frustrated” with him this week when he wasn’t home to take her to school for her ...

Thy Black Man on MSN1d

Barack Obama Blasts Texas Redistricting, Critics Recall His Own Illinois Gerrymander.

Barack Obama condemned Texas Republicans for a mid-decade gerrymander, but critics point to his own Illinois redistricting ...

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