Texas Supreme Court rejects bid to oust House Democrats who fled state over redistricting - POLITICO

“Abbott sent us threats. He sent lawyers. He sicced his lapdog, Ken Paxton, on us,” Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu said in a statement. “He asked the highest court in Texas to remove elected Democrats from office because we refused to be bullied into helping him pass a rigged map for Donald Trump. Today, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court said: no. The Constitution does not let a Governor erase voters’ choices when their choices are inconvenient to him.”…

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