Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that prosecuting Democratic state House members who left the state to block a Republican-backed redistricting plan will not be easy.
Democrats on Aug. 4 prevented the state House of Representatives from moving forward with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump to shore up Republicans’ 2026 midterm prospects.
“We’d have to go through a court process, and we’d have to file that maybe in districts that are not friendly to Republicans,” the Republican attorney general said in an interview on Aug. 4 with podcaster Benny Johnson.
Paxton said that it would be “a challenge because every district would be different” and “we’d have to go sue in every legislator’s home district.”…
Texas AG: Prosecuting Democrats Who Left State Will Be a ‘Challenge’
