Texas Republicans filed a lawsuit on Thursday asking a court in Illinois to enforce arrest warrants for Democrats who left Texas earlier this week in a bid to block the GOP from advancing a redistricting map.
The filing, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, asks the Illinois Eighth Judicial Circuit Court to enforce arrest warrants for the Democrats that were issued in Texas but don’t apply in other states.
“The Texas Representatives named herein hope the State of Illinois will provide safe harbor for their political actions and shield them from legal process,” they wrote in the filing, referring to the Democratic lawmakers who fled to Illinois….