{"id":150546,"date":"2025-08-05T22:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=150546"},"modified":"2025-08-05T22:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:03:48","slug":"tx-democrats-flee-state-as-gop-invents-basis-for-them-to-be-removed-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=150546","title":{"rendered":"TX Democrats Flee State as GOP Invents Basis for Them to Be Removed from Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/08\/03\/texas-democrats-quorum-break-redistricting-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP\u2019s proposed congressional map<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday in a bid to block passage of a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House next year, raising the stakes in what&#8217;s poised to be a national fight over redistricting ahead of next year\u2019s midterm election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The maneuver, undertaken by most of the Texas House\u2019s 62 Democrats, deprives the Republican-controlled chamber of a quorum \u2014 the number of lawmakers needed to function under House rules \u2014 ahead of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/tlodocs\/891\/calendars\/pdf\/H120250804.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a scheduled Monday vote<\/a>\u00a0on the draft map. The 150-member House can only conduct business if at least 100 members are present, meaning the absence of 51 or more Democrats can bring the Legislature\u2019s ongoing special session to a halt.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/08\/03\/texas-democrats-quorum-break-redistricting-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2025\/08\/04\/abbott-threatens-to-oust-democrats-who-fled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abbott Threatens to Oust Democrats Who Fled<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) threatened quorum breaking Democrats with untested theory that they can be removed from office and replaced if they do not return to the Texas House by Monday, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/quorumreport.com\/quorum_report_daily_buzz_2025\/gov_abbott_threatens_quorum_breaking_democrats_wit_buzziid32791.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Quorum Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP\u2019s proposed congressional map &#8220;Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday in a bid to block passage of a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House next year, raising the stakes in what&#8217;s poised to be a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150547,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150546\/revisions\/150547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}