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When Texas House Democrats Wanted To Derail A GOP Redistricting Bill In 2003, They Headed To Oklahoma


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Texas state Representative Trey Martinez Fisher speaks as Texas Democratic lawmakers join multiple organizations outside the Texas State Capitol to criticize proposed changes to election laws on the 2021 Special Legislative Session agenda on July 8. Democratic lawmakers left the state for Washington D.C. On Monday to deny a quorum in the House.
When Democrats planned their excursion to Washington this week to break quorum in the Texas House, it wasn t a new approach. Their predecessors in the Legislature did the same thing in 2003.
Back then, Republicans wanted to pass a redistricting bill that would redraw the state s congressional districts to favor the GOP. It had been put forward two years after the usual decennial redistricting process had been completed in 2001. Even if Democrats had voted against it, the bill was sure to pass. ....

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