Texas AG: Prosecuting Democrats Who Left State Will Be a ‘Challenge’

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.”… 

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