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Illinois Senator Dick Durbin joins Texas Democrats to warn redistricting fight is a threat to whole country
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin joined Texas Democrats to warn that the redistricting fight in the Lone Star State is the first ...
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Paxton, Burrows ask Illinois court to enforce Texas arrest warrants against Democrats who left the state
The attorney general is calling on the “full faith and credit” clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says states should ...
Texas Gov. Abbott decries ‘runaway Democrats’ as redistricting standoff enters its second week
Democratic lawmakers in Texas once again thwarted the Republican redistricting effort in the state when the Texas House of ...
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin joins Texas Democrats to discuss redistricting fight
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is joining Texas Democrats to discuss the harm they say the state's plan for a mid-decade redistricting could have on the country.
Sen. Dick Durbin joins Texas Democrats in denouncing GOP remap try: ‘This is an American issue’
Durbin was originally supposed to speak alongside the lawmakers last week, before a bomb threat was reported at the hotel ...
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In redistricting clash, Texas GOP flexes power to shut down Democrats' last tool of resistance
Since Democratic lawmakers left Texas to delay Republicans’ new map, state leaders have challenged the limits of traditional ...
FBI agrees to help find Texas Democrats in Illinois, but Gov. JB Pritzker calls move ‘grandstanding’
Gov. JB Pritzker attempted to tamp down the federal law enforcement involvement, describing it as “a lot of grandstanding.” ...
‘Texas law does not apply in Illinois’: Gov. JB Pritzker draws line in sand as FBI ‘hunts down’ runway Democrats
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday refuted claims that President Donald Trump could force Texas Democrats to return to their ...
Texas Democrat likens intimidation tactics by plainclothes officers to ‘domestic terrorism’
"What's happening with me and my family right now is a human rights violation," Texas state Rep. Josey Garcia told the Washington Examiner.
Texas Democrats in Illinois, Rainbow PUSH celebrate Voting Rights Act
Texas House Democrats in Illinois say they are committed to staying out of their state until the special session ends August ...