Texas Dems Run to Illinois to Deny a Quorum for

As anticipated, Texas Democratic legislators have fled the state to deny a quorum for Gov. Greg Abbott’s redistricting push. The members flew to Illinois on Sunday, which qualifies as peak irony given that the blue state is arguably essentially the most gerrymandered in the nation. 

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This plan was reportedly hatched with Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), and the 30 odd Democrats will spend at least a week there. Given what we noticed when they did this in 2021, denying a quorum for an election reform vote, there may be no doubt a lot of grandstanding, dramatics, and cringe singing on the way in which. 

In an extraordinary transfer to counter Republican redistricting in Texas, dozens of Democrats in the state House of Representatives are heading right here Sunday to deny a mandatory quorum for the GOP to transfer ahead with those efforts.

The roughly 30 Democrats are anticipated to keep for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who had met with the Texas caucus late final month and has directed workers to present logistical help for their keep. A information convention with the governor and Texas Democrats is anticipated later Sunday.

“We’re leaving Texas to fight for Texans,” Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu mentioned in a assertion. “We will not allow disaster relief to be held hostage to a Trump gerrymander. We’re not walking out on our responsibilities; we’re walking out on a rigged system that refuses to listen to the people we represent. As of today, this corrupt special session is over.”

All of this is just so silly. The proposed congressional map can be nowhere close to as unhealthy a gerrymander as the one in Illinois, where these clowns ran off to. So it’s extremely wealthy to see Pritzker enjoying a position in this. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has also tried to put himself at the forefront of this combat, but again, this map would still give Democrats a greater quantity of seats in contrast to the state’s voter splits than California’s ridiculous map, which provides Republicans only 9 seats. What’s occurring is hypocrisy on steroids, with Democrats demanding the GOP dwell by a double normal whereby blue states can rig their maps to the max while holding a veto over the states in purple maps. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has already pledged to push the purple button, which incorporates monitoring down and arresting the members who fled. The state’s structure permits that as a particular means to fight this sort of gamesmanship.

If Democrats ignore their obligation to their constituents by breaking quorum, they need to be discovered and arrested no matter where they go. The people of Texas elected them to do a job, not run away and disguise like cowards. Lawmakers should reply the particular session call and move the… https://t.co/sxLvZCIOB1

— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) July 15, 2025

The first shoe to drop can be fines, which whole $500 per day absent from the particular session. That probably will not do a lot to compel a return, given it is not that a lot, and you may wager left-wing donors will discover a means to slip money under the desk to pay those money owed. It’s the arrests that symbolize the larger menace, and while in 2021, Republicans did not appear eager to push that purple button (and Democrats folded and got here back anyway), now appears as good a time as any. 

As long as these Democrats do not return to Texas, though, arrests are a long shot. Here’s the factor, though. In Texas, there may be no restrict to the quantity of particular periods the governor can call. That means Abbott may drive these Democrats to dwell in Illinois or one other blue state haven indefinitely, and that’s precisely what he ought to do. Call particular session after particular session until they finally have enough and come back to Texas, and when they do, arrest them and take them straight to the state home to present a quorum. Playing hardball is the only reply right here. 

I’ve also seen it prompt that these Democrats may have their seats vacated for abandoning them. How that would work is still up for debate, but it looks like a cheap path to pursue if they don’t seem to be going to show up to do their jobs as the law requires. 

Either means, the actual enjoyable is about to start. It’s not 2021 anymore, and I suspect Republicans are going to be prepared to go a lot additional to guarantee compliance this time around. So let the Democrats take their selfies and give their press conferences in Illinois, but this new congressional map is getting handed before the midterms. The only query is whether or not it’s going to occur the straightforward means or the laborious means. 

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