With enough Democratic members
of the Texas House of Representatives staying in Illinois and New York as of
August 3, 2025 that the legislative chamber could not reach a quorum and thus
be able to hold a vote on a Congressional redistricting plan that could gain
the Republic Party five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, Greg
Abbot, who at the time was Texas’ head of state and head of the executive
branch, was considering various options to bring the lawmakers back. That only
one of those options was legal points to the importance of the rule of law being
applied to government officials.
The full essay is at "Texas Overreaching."
