{"id":4934,"date":"2025-09-05T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:40:47","slug":"case-to-remove-dems-who-fled-state-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4934","title":{"rendered":"Case To Remove Dems Who Fled State Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Democrats Leave Texas to Block GOP Map<\/strong><br>In August, dozens of Texas House Democrats fled the state to stop Republicans from passing a new congressional map that,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>under pressure from Donald Trump, could add five GOP seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their only option as the minority was to \u201cbreak quorum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abbott and Paxton Push Back<\/strong><br>Gov. Greg Abbott asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove Democratic caucus chair Rep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gene Wu from office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called Wu the \u201cring leader of the derelict Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney General Ken Paxton, once at odds with Abbott over jurisdiction,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>now vows to \u201chold these cowards accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wu\u2019s Defense<\/strong><br>Wu\u2019s lawyers argue his actions reflect his constituents\u2019 wishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis presence in another state is not a voluntary resignation,\u201d they wrote, noting he has not been expelled by the required two-thirds vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Punishments Proposed<\/strong><br>Republicans advanced House Bill 18 to fine lawmakers $5,000 per donation raised during quorum breaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Matt Shaheen warned the current system \u201ccreates a financial incentive to break quorum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Leave Texas to Block GOP MapIn August, dozens of Texas House Democrats fled the state to stop Republicans from passing a new congressional map that, under pressure from Donald Trump, could add five GOP seats. Their only option as the minority was to \u201cbreak quorum.\u201d Abbott and Paxton Push BackGov. Greg Abbott asked the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4935,"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-4934","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\/4934","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=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4936,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions\/4936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}