The Texas Supreme Court on May 15 rejected a request to remove more than 50 Democratic lawmakers from their seats after they fled the state to block a redistricting vote in 2025.
The court opinion suggested judicial intervention was not needed because it was already addressed when the Republican-majority Legislature issued fines against the missing lawmakers.
The high court noted that the Democrats also returned on their own within a few weeks.
“Courts have uniformly recognized that it is not their role to resolve disputes between the other two branches that those branches can resolve for themselves,” Justice James Blacklock wrote in a court opinion….