Texas Republicans voted to arrest Democrats who uphold the redistribution of voting

The Texas Republicans voted to track and arrest dozens of democratic legislators who fled the state to block the crossing of a plan to re -withstand elections to support Republicans.

Following the vote, Republican governor Greg Abut ordered state troops “to find, arrest and return to the House of the House, who abandoned his obligation to the Texas.”

Abbott also threatens to blame the absent Democrats with bribery if they raise public money to cover the daily fine they have for boycotting the Chamber.

The re -map of the Congress will create five more republican places in the House of US Representatives in Washington, where Republicans have a thin majority.

At least two-thirds of the 150-member state legislative body in Texas must be present in order to continue the vote. The quorum became unattainable after more than 50 democratic legislators left the state.

Most of the Democrats fled to Illinois, where the state governor JB Pritzker said he “will do everything possible to protect each of them” against the threats of Abbot.

Democrats said they were planning to stay away from Texas for two weeks until the end of a special legislative session.

The vote on Monday was predominantly symbolic, as the warrants are applied only within the State Lines of Texas.

This move enables sergeant of sergeant and state servicemen to arrest the absent legislators and deliver them to the State Capitol building in Austin.

They would not face any civil or criminal charges as a result of the order.

Texas democratic legislator Ron Reynolds told the BBC News from Chicago on Monday that the threat of arrest is “nothing more than a scare tactic.”

Texas house members impose $ 500 (£ 377) for each day they fail to appear.

Governor Abbot warned that those who refused to return to vote could face charges.

“It would be a bribe if a legislator took money to execute or refuse to make an act in the legislature,” Abbot told Fox News on Monday.

“And the reports are that these legislators have sought money and offered money to miss the vote, to leave the legislature, to undertake a legislative law. This would be a bribe.”

After the legislators voted to issue orders against the Democrats, the Abbot ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety “to find, arrest and return to the House of the House, which abandoned its obligation on Texas.”

He added that his order would remain in force “until all the disappeared members of the Democratic House are reported and brought to the Texas Capitol.”

The Texas Republican legislator Brian Harrison has stabbed the Democrats for their argument that electoral areas are redirected to racial lines.

“Ridiculous, cynical, dishonest, utter nonsense,” Harrison told BBC News.

He added that “these democrats should be arrested” and that “they should have any other penalties.”

Texas Prosecutor General Ken Paxon, a Republican, also threatened that the absent Democrats were arrested.

Paxon, who is running for the US Senate, wrote to X that the state should “use every instrument at our disposal to pursue those who think they are above the law.”

Currently, Texas Republicans occupy 25 of the 38s at the Congress of the State.

They hope that new cards can increase this number to 30 – all in the electoral areas that President Donald Trump won last November with at least 10 points.

Before the intermediate elections next year, the redistribution of Texas can help to put the slender Republican majority in the House of US Representatives, the lower house of Congress.

In countries where they deal with the redistribution process, such as Illinois, New Mexico and Nevada, the Democrats have already manipulated polling borders for guerrilla profit, as Republicans have, according to the Gerimander project in Princeton.

But other countries controlled by the Democrats – such as New York, California, Colorado and Washington – are being assigned a redistribution to non -partisan, independent committees, not state legislative bodies.

Some democratic leaders in other countries suggest that they can redirect their own legislative cards to oppose the proposed losses in places in Texas.

New York Governor Katie Hochul said he was studying a constitutional amendment to increase with the graphics to redirect the legislative lines in his country.

Countries usually undergo redistribution every 10 years when voting cards are redirected to account for changes in the population.

The US most census was in 2020. The redirect of regional lines in the middle of the decade is unusual.