Texas Democrats Defy Abbott Deadline—as Republicans Threaten Arrest

IRAN-ISRAEL

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows plans to sign warrants to track down and arrest more than 50 Democrats who left the state over the weekend in order to deny Republicans the quorum needed to create a new gerrymandered congressional map at President Trump’s behest. The Texas House voted 85–6 to issue arrest warrants for those absent when the House convened on Monday afternoon. Texas House rules state that lawmakers who are absent from “calls of the House” without sufficient excuses “may, by