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Texas Democrats in Illinois to protest redistricting plan

Governor JB Pritzker has arranged for roughly 30 Democratic lawmakers to stay in Illinois for the week. Politico was first to report the lawmakers had left Texas.

NBC News · 48m

Texas Democrats decamp to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting

In response, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to try to remove the Democrats from the state Legislature and said some of them may even be "felons."

CBS News on MSN · 9h

Dozens of Texas Democratic lawmakers head to Illinois in protest against redistricting plan

A plane load of Texas Democrats arrived in Illinois on Sunday in a rarely used act of political maneuvering.The group left the Lone Star State in a last-ditch effort to disrupt a Republican plan to redistrict the state by denying GOP lawmakers a quorum to advance their new map.

7hon MSN

Texas Democrats arrive in Illinois to block vote back home on redrawn House maps sought by Trump

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott called a special session of the Legislature that started last month to take up the redistricting ...

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A Christian college ministry enables a sex offender and Texas Democrats flee to Illinois: Morning Rundown

Plus, former college football coach and attorney Derek Dooley launches a Senate bid in Georgia as the GOP eyes Jon Ossoff's seat.

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