Greg Abbott Goes Full Authoritarian in Wild Threat to Democrats

Ana Maria Rus

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is threatening to expel any Democratic legislators who don’t show up to the Texas Capitol by Monday afternoon—after Democrats fled the state to stop a vote on Republicans’ obviously gerrymandered congressional maps. Fifty-one Texas Democrats left the Lone Star State over the weekend, thus denying Republicans the two-thirds quorum needed for votes in the state’s 150-member legislature. They plan to stay away for the duration of the two-week special legislation in which

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Greg Abbott Goes Full Authoritarian in Wild Threat to Democrats https://newrepublic.com/ - 04.08.2025 19:08