Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned Democratic lawmakers to return to the state by Friday or face legal consequences for fleeing to block a GOP-backed redistricting vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf they do not show up, we will be in an Illinois courtroom\u2026 hold them in contempt\u2026 hopefully put them in jail,\u201d Paxton told Fox & Friends<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Governor Greg Abbott threatened harsher political consequences if the standoff continues, saying, \u201cIf they don\u2019t start showing up, I may start expanding it\u2026 six or seven or eight new seats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Civil arrest warrants were issued, and Paxton said a motion would be filed to remove lawmakers from office. \u201cWe\u2019re in uncharted territory,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Abbott defended the redistricting push, saying, \u201cThere is every reason to\u2026 draw the lines so that we can assure that every voter is going to have the opportunity to vote for their candidate of choice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas Democrats Face Legal Threats Over Redistricting Walkout Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned Democratic lawmakers to return to the state by Friday or face legal consequences for fleeing to block a GOP-backed redistricting vote. \u201cIf they do not show up, we will be in an Illinois courtroom\u2026 hold them in contempt\u2026 hopefully put them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}GOP Leaders Push Back<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Legal and Law Enforcement Measures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Broader GOP Strategy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n