Texas’ top cop is going interstate to catch the runaway Democrats.
This morning Attorney General Ken Paxton reports that he and state House Speaker Dustin Burrows have filed paperwork in the state of California to have fugitive Texas state lawmakers arrested there.
House democrats bailed out of Austin, and out of the state, to stymie the majority republicans push to redraw the state’s congressional districts potentially adding as many as five new Republican dominated districts.
Earlier this week, Paxton and Burrows filed a similar complaint in Illinois calling for the arrest of Democrats who'd fled there.
Paxton has asked for the FBI’s help to bring the Democrats back to face justice for obstructing the proceedings of the legislature.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has stood in support of the legislative fugitives and has threatened to redistrict his own state to deprive Republicans of congressional districts there.
“Texans are fed up with lawmakers who refuse to do their jobs and instead run away to states like California to exploit radical governors’ broken political systems as a shield,” Paxton said in a statement from his office. “Gavin Newsom may be comfortable with lawlessness and the protection of corrupt legislators, but Texas will not tolerate elected officials who defy the Constitution for political theater.”
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