Petition adds pressure on Democratic lawmakers who remain out of state to fight new congressional map
The showdown between Texas Republicans and the Democrats who fled the state to block redistricting plans escalated late on Tuesday when Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, asked the state supreme court to remove the top Democrat in the state house of representatives.
Abbott’s emergency petition was an effort to ratchet up the pressure on the Democratic state lawmakers who remain out of the state as they try to prevent Republicans from passing a new congressional map.
