🚨BREAKING: The Texas House Monday voted to issue arrest warrants for Democrats who fled the state to block the GOP from taking a vote on its congressional redistricting plan. However, experts say it’s unlikely the warrants will actually return Democrats to Texas, contrary to Republicans’ claims.
Eff these Republicans
Huh how can they issue anything when they can't put votes on the floor. This is not going to go well for Texas Republicans in office when this s*** goes to court
How can they vote for anything without a quorum?
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I just hope these DEMS are being protected by IL & NY state police directive by their governors.
Warrants for what exactly?
They’re just a bunch of FASCIST BULLIES 🤬🤬🤬
no quorum for that either...
🤣 Absurd theater! TX House MAGA GOP crooks should vote to issue arrest warrants for themselves 😂
Idiots. Arrest them? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Fucking idiots. What a buncha babies.
LOL, aren't they cute.
Texas #cosplayingagain
A true democratic republic does not force anyone to vote “or else” by threatening imprisonment or worse. This is entirely unAmerican.
I don't suppose Texas Republicans even bothered to provide any information about what law the Democrats are supposed to have broken to warrant being arrested?
Can someone explain what is illegal about leaving Texas?
Maybe Paxton believes that the legislators are all pregnant? Because I think they have made it illegal to leave Texas while pregnant.
Excellent point!
INSANE FUCKERS
Republicans can go fck themselves
and twice on whatever day it is today
The Outfit in the GOP cost me services for my children and their friends. I've seen a lot of them, discussing how I just don't understand, why they made the cuts. Gets me to feel like Walker in Point Blank.
How can they vote on anything when they don’t have a quorum? Would this even be legal without the quorum?
ReTHUGS will do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING to break the law!... Love shoving it back in their fucking Racist faces!! We're starting to fight 🔥 with 🔥and it feels GREAT!!!
A brazen grab for unfettered power. Only 56% of Texas voters supported GOP in 2024 yet GOP end up with 2/3 of all seats. Given the choice today, imho GOP votes would be well below 50%. Texans, your state is being handed over by your reps. to the sleazy NY realtor rapist.
They earn about $600 a month as a state lawmaker per Tallirico. Seems like Abbot and Paxton are committing more “biblical crimes” against their Texas neighbors again.
😂😂😂😂😂
*CIVIL warrants. No good outside of Texass! Paxton should be several years into his prison sentence.
How did they vote to arrest the Dems if they don't have a quorum?
Their crooked Attorney General, Ken Paxton, issued CIVIL arrest warrants. They are no good outside of Texass. Paxton should be several years into his own prison sentence.
I read earlier that the lege did hold a vote with the outcome 85-6 to track down the Dems and hang em high. A meaningless vote?
That crook Paxton issued CIVIL warrants. They mean nothing outside of Texass. Paxton should be several years into his own prison sentence. And remember, he led the Republican Attorneys General in a lawsuit to deny the 2020 Biden victory and lost spectacularly!
I don't understand the rules. They can't vote on redistricting without a quorum, but somehow they can vote to issue arrest warrants without a quorum. Different rules for different actions?
On what grounds can they be arrested??? Would another jurisdiction even comply?
Arresting legislators is “not what Demicracy looks like.”
any exigent circumstances listed and "but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation,and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." issued by a judge
It’s unlikely that the arrest warrants are legal…
The arrest warrants aren't valid outside Texas. The dems are outside Texas 😘. Sucks that they're being kept from their families. Republicans are masters of separating families huh?
Fascism
So they've completely given up on arresting illegal drug smuggling cartels?
Is it illegal for reps in Texas to miss votes? If not, then the warrants are illegal.
So frustrating when someone throws a wrench into your plans to steal an election.
You get back here and help us cheat or you’re going to jail!
How do they vote for arrest warrants without democrats present? 😂😂😂
Maybe this: "... motions were made to issue a “call of the House,” a procedure in the chamber rules meant to restore a quorum by empowering the sergeant at arms to bring absconded members back into the chamber." Also: "Two Republicans were marked as not present for all votes — though 🧵
Toth announced this morning that he was tending to his wife back home who was undergoing surgery. Lopez was spotted in the chamber despite failing to register on any of the votes." thetexan.news/state/legisl...
maybe there’s a failsafe but, how can the TX House vote to issue warrants if they don’t have a quorum to conduct business?
How about arrest warrants on ICE agents for taking citizens without reason and without due process..I hope there's a major class action suit filed against them by families and friends and employers affected by this mess
They should try coming to Illinois to get them. It would be a fafo moment
If the Texas House doesn’t have a quorum to vote on the maps, how can they vote on issuing arrest warrants?
They can do that without a quorum?
FFS. This is Dan Crenshaw’s gerrymandered district. He would not be in the house but for this.
So, Gavin, how about 6-8 newly gerrymandered stretches from Sacramento all the way down to the Mexican Border. Neuter the Visalia legislative district of (frmr Rep.) Devin Nunez. WA Gov. Ferguson: severely gerrymander all of Cen./E. Wa/Skagit. Hochul: obliterate Upstate Red districts and Lng. Is.
That’s criminal right there
Time to fight back - ferociously and mercilessly with Blue State gerrymandering like never before.
Republican POS
Literally twisting themselves into knots, even in their maps.
Keep it up, we will not just accept this.
It all has quite a fort sumter-y vibe tbh.
Breaking quorum is not a crime: When lawmakers leave the state to prevent a quorum (as Texas Democrats did in 2021 and again in 2025), they are not committing a criminal offense. This means they cannot be arrested.
Time well spent, TX republicans... remind me, how many kids drowned on your watch again? I know you typically only care about unborn kids..but how about you figure out how to run a state without everyone drowning or losing power?
Republicans: Stunt makers. Little to no productivity. Useless MAGAs.
Arrest warrants for what? It isn’t illegal to break a quorum.
Yeah, it’s not arrested as in going to jail. It’s arrested and hauled in to Austin to establish a legislative quorum.
How can they vote to issue warrants without a quorum?
Oooooouu. So tough. Means jack. It’s a civil infraction which basically means it’s a traffic ticket. Wow. Sooooooo scary.
😂 Dopes.
The Tex-ass House didn't have a quorum . . . How did they vote on issuing warrants? Illegal warrants, and Governor Abbott is a fascist on wheels.
This is what we want to see from Democrats! We’re sick of hearing that policies are “unprecedented” or “undemocratic”, we want to see action taken.
Pritzker: "Bring it on. I dare you."
Illegal just like like felon 47 executive orders.
Abbott is just a mini-trump, a blowhard and bully. Karma? www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oes...
Saw they are paid very tiny subsidy for serving, most have day jobs they are not working. We should consider how to get supplemental funds to them to help them hold. NOT interested in going through dem pacs, they've turned into scam/spam machines & pay too much to BS consultants
How did they hold a vote to issue warrants when there wasn’t a quorums ?
More like they are designed to keep them from coming back! Not enforceable outside the state.
What's the charge?? He has no power to fire anyone, all congressional members were all voted in.
Fuck Texas Republicans. Texas cops are too cowardly to make the scene anyway.
We may finally get that Lone Ranger Visits Chicago episode…
So they can't vote on maps, but can vote on this?
Dem legislators to Gov. Abbott: “Threaten all you want. We’re not feelin’ it. Go pound sand!!!”
Can they do that without a quorum?
🙄
Hope could they vote when they don't have a quorum?
That’s my question.
“A warrant issued by the Texas House is not effective out of the state unless another state chooses to domesticate it and enforce it under that state’s laws.” 😂😂😂✌️
So sergeants-at-arms are just truant officers? Is Trump going to try to use ICE to import the dems to Texas (then deport to wherever)? Can either "police force" be used to keep Ted Cruz in state whenever there's a disaster? Could they maybe find the 3 people who are still missing from the floods?
And don’t forget our missing congress.
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On what basis?
I bet they are really hoping this will distract from Epstein
Dems have the laws on their side. This is pure showmanship for being out maneuvered.
Gotta show the orange turd, You can still hold power.... otherwise, he'll speak mean to you
Being charged with not showing up to their 2nd job? Maybe they should all quit and force a special election to be set up. Or quit one at a time
Unserious people. More concerned with peacocking for the pedophile poootus that anything else. Gross.
"We're going to arrest you for preventing us from cheating" 👍
I wonder how they’ll be received in NY or Chicago trying to enforce those if they even have the balls to try. My happiest internet moments have been watching the reception ICE bitches have received in those places. #ResistFacism
It’s illegal to do any thing the Republicans don’t want to do
Did they do anything about the risks of flooding?
Is Texas going to invade Illinois?
It would be a shame if people flooded their office phones with creative tips for where to look for the democrats
The fight for democracy has begun . We will win over fascism
Typical maga
Smoke and mirrors. All talk and no trousers.
those cheating texas republican asswipes
Fascinating how republicans contemptuously, gleefully, and brazenly flout the law but expect democrats to meekly follow it (granted, historically they have).
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Noem little about the Constitution will probably attempt to have Trumps personal militia (ICE) arrest and detain them. It's where we're folks. Full on Facisit Free for all brought to by MAGA Republicans.
I stand with Texas Democrats.
Since they don’t have a quorum, is that legally binding?
Arrest for what, what law have they broken?
They're a preamble to expulsion & Abbott nominating replacements?
He wants to, but he can’t.
I'm 1,500 miles away and I don't know TX law. However, I did read that after the 2003 little thingy, TX passed a law putting those teeth into the law (above and beyond the $500/day from personal finances). Was it a misread or misreporting?
Part of me does want to see a Texas Ranger get thrown in jail for trying to enforce this in Illinois though.
I'm sure these folks had the same opinion of Speaker Johnson recessing Congress so they wouldn't have to vote on releasing the Epstein files. Right? Right? (They did not.)
So the Republicans want to arrest Democrats for trying to prevent the Republicans from rigging an election. Do I have that right?
Nothing supreme about that court!
What is stopping Ds from issuing their own arrest warrants? I mean, a fake warrant should beget a fake warrant.
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Texas Repubs are moving quickly to totally gerrymander House seats. Meanwhile, today is one month since the flash floods that killed hundreds, and they haven't done a damn thing.
Rounding up a posse?
The GOP are cowards afraid of a fair fight at the ballot box.
arrest deez nuts
How could they vote to approve warrants if they didn’t have quorum? 🤔 Can warrants be lawfully issued without quorum?
Absolutely speechless 😳
Dear Texas Republican Politicians, Go fuck yourselves. Signed, The rest of the country
How can they vote anything without a quorum?
REPUBLICANS JUST CAN'T PLAY NICE......EVER
They can’t win if they don’t cheat. And if they don’t win they might be forced to reckon with the idea that people other than straight white men can lead.
The utter Republicult spineless collusion with the MAGA Trump shitshow has no bounds. Where are all the guard rails?!
They should 2A anyone trying to arrest them! I'm over this crap by Repukes.
Too bad Texas, try not to look silly.
😂 Good luck, especially if they come to NY.
And they’re right here in Chicago. They ain’t going back no matter how many warrants are issued. Because they have some sense.
Republicans live in their own version of reality
Dirty birds
Arrest warrants for something that is not a crime. It doesn't get much more Oweellian than that
But why do republicans hate America so much and why do they continually violate the constitution?
Texas Republicans' political greed is repugnant.
It is not a crime to be absent from Texas. Yes, the legislators can be compelled to return, but it's not at all clear arrests are part of that since absence is NOT a crime or even a civil infraction.
This is improper language for what the Democrats have done. It is called breaking quorum. They did not flee, they simply are not going to show up for work
Texas house is full of monsters and little dick gangsters emboldened by Trump
The warrants are only good in Texas, which will keep the Dems away also… Not that I expected the R’s to have a plan that makes sense…
Seriously?
That's hilarious. They don't have a quorum to vote on gerrymandering, but they have a quorum to vote on arresting people? Please make it make sense.
Ha ha ha. Like democrats are going to return to be served warrants
Stop! Or I'll say stop again!
What grounds are they being arrested under? I’m so confused
Made-up grounds. 😵💫
We saw this same showdown in Wisconsin in 2010. The Democratic legislators eventually came back after a few weeks and Scott Walker gerrymandered us into oblivion for a very painful decade. I really hope this works out different, but it looks bleak. Newsom and Hochul should stay ready to retaliate.
If the Supreme Court wasn't supremely compromised and corrupt they would rule that every state needs to stop doing this to it's citizens. But they apparently can't be torn away from their petty social grievances and Nixon fan-fic long enough to protect the constitution they're sworn to protect.
I don't know how the laws work, but if I was a governor hosting those TX dems, I'd muscle up with some weapons and a warning to Abbott & Trump.
Despicable! Rs in Texas want to STEAL the elections?! ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
Who are they sending to (1) find them; and (2) serve them?
Arrested under what crime. I legit do not understand
This is more showboating from that pathetic governor Hot Wheels. He has no legal nor actual working legs to stand on.
If Democrats are worth anything, Democratic governors will as a group immediately issue orders to State-governed militia to actively defend against Federal law enforcement if it tries to arrest Texas Democrats in their states.
The Republicans are showing us all who they always were
Vote without a quorum? 🤔
Hold steady TX Dems!
Theres your proof, that we've now entered the twilight zone.
