Background Several Texas Democrat lawmakers arrived in Illinois over the weekend have and since held multiple news conferences since then, usually with support of Illinois lawmakers.

Nothing about the Texas redistricting dispute would plausibly justify the FBI’s active engagement. For one thing, the Texas lawmakers’ flight from the state isn’t even criminal under Texas law.

Here is why Democrats in the Texas House left the state, why Republicans in the Legislature want to redraw political maps and why other states are involved.

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In total, 62 Democrats hold seats in the 89th Texas House of Representatives, according to the Legislative Reference Library of Texas. Not sure who your state legislators are?

Texas Democrats fled the state Sunday to deny the GOP a legislative quorum as part of an effort to prevent Republicans from redrawing the Lone Star State’s congressional maps. The move deprives ...

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott claimed that he had heard that the FBI will search for Texas House Democrats who left the state in protest of proposed new congressional maps.

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Texas lawmakers have walked out even before current redistricting battle Gov. Greg Abbott's threats to arrest Democratic lawmakers are not unprecedented.

The Democratic state lawmakers left Texas to delay a vote on new congressional maps.

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Is the Democrats’ decision to break quorum illegal? No, it's not. But they could still be detained by state troopers in what’s called a civil arrest.