The Texas House voted 85–6 to issue arrest warrants for those absent when the House convened on Monday afternoon.
In doing so, Burrows escalates the warpath that state Republicans have forged against the Democratic walkout.
But we’ll likely not see Texas Democrats physically forced back to the Capitol as the warrants only apply within state lines, and most truant Democrats departed for other states.
Back then, warrants were blocked as they underwent legal challenges, but the state’s Supreme Court eventually ruled that lawmakers could be arrested under Texas’s Constitution, which, it said, “enables ‘quorum-breaking’ by a minority faction of the legislature” but also “authorizes ‘quorum-forcing’ by the remaining members.”
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