named in the suit against abbott. tray mardy fisher and ron reynolds. representative reynolds, 22 house democrats filed a federal lawsuit overnight against the governor and texas house speaker. you were one of them. tell me how it came together. first of all great to be on your show. the democrat my democratic colleagues and i believe that governor abbott is exceeding his authority. there s no penal code we re breaking. none of us are breaking any law. there is no reason for him to threaten us with being able to be corralled when we come back into texas to be hauled into the house chambers to force us to reform. we believe this is another violation of our constitutional rights and the governor exceeded his authority just as he did when he defunded article 10 effectively eliminating the legislative budget so we believe that the court is the only relief that we have to check to make sure that the governor is