{"id":5425,"date":"2025-09-05T17:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:31:45","slug":"case-to-remove-dems-who-fled-state-begins-at-tx-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=5425","title":{"rendered":"Case To Remove Dems Who Fled State Begins At TX Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas House Democrats made national headlines this summer when they fled the state to stall a vote on a new congressional map that would help Republicans pick up 5 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Republican Gov. Greg Abbott petitioned the Texas Supreme Court to remove their caucus leader from office.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that high-stakes case is before the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday (Sept. 4) and could set a precedent for any lawmaker in the future who attempts to flee the state to avoid voting on a measure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\">\n<div id=\"teknolojibura.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"CMvp_YmTwo8DFbtIpAQdcsc4XA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23201474937\/teknolojibura.com\/teknolojibura.com_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Abbott touted the court\u2019s decision as a victory, posting on social media that the briefing schedule brings the \u201cring leader of the derelict Democrats \u2026 closer to consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"loveusa.homes_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23201474937\/loveusa.homes\/loveusa.homes_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Court has combined Abbott\u2019s lawsuit against Houston Rep. Gene Wu, chair of the House Democratic Caucus, with a similar case brought by Attorney General Ken Paxton, who seeks to oust Wu along with 12 other Democratic members.<\/p>\n<p>Although Abbott and Paxton initially disagreed over which office had the legal authority to file such suits, Paxton said that he now looks forward to working alongside Abbott to \u201chold these cowards accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas House Democrats made national headlines this summer when they fled the state to stall a vote on a new congressional map that would help Republicans pick up 5 seats in the U.S. House&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}