“Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday in a bid to dam passage of a brand new congressional map designed to present the GOP 5 further seats within the U.S. Home subsequent 12 months, elevating the stakes in what’s poised to be a nationwide combat over redistricting forward of subsequent 12 months’s midterm election,” the Texas Tribune stories.
“The maneuver, undertaken by many of the Texas Home’s 62 Democrats, deprives the Republican-controlled chamber of a quorum — the variety of lawmakers wanted to perform beneath Home guidelines — forward of a scheduled Monday vote on the draft map.”
“The 150-member Home can solely conduct enterprise if no less than 100 members are current, which means the absence of 51 or extra Democrats can carry the Legislature’s ongoing particular session to a halt.”
