Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows says civil warrants will be issued for Democratic lawmakers who left the state to deny Republicans the quorum needed to redraw the state’s 38 congressional districts, at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. Photo: Nuri Vallbona/Reuters Republican members of Texas’s House of Representatives are seeking the arrest of the Democratic colleagues who fled the state over the weekend to prevent the passage of a gerrymandered congressional map . The Texas Tribune