The Texas Supreme Court on Friday shut down Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) effort to penalize the dozens of Democratic legislators who fled the state last summer in an attempt to block a rare mid-decade redistricting effort. Abbott asked the all-Republican court in an emergency petition last August to find that the Texas House’s Democratic leader,…
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Texas Supreme Court refuses to remove Democrats who fled state
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Originally reported by The Hill. Read the full story at the original source.
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