Texas Gov. Abbott Orders Arrest of Democrat Legislators Who Fled

Love to see it. The party of criminals thinks they are above the law.

Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty and are holding flood relief and property tax cuts hostage.

I ordered Texas DPS to arrest and return every derelict House Democrat to the Texas Capitol.

This order will remain in effect until all missing Democrats are accounted for. pic.twitter.com/A87u2JxYU7

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 4, 2025

https://twitter..com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1952497276288651719

Redrawing Texas: Democrats FLEE State to Avoid Voting on Redistricting

Four of the five new Congressional seats in Texas will be majority HISPANIC.

The Hill: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday ordered the arrest of the Democrats who fled the Lone Star State in an effort to halt the advancement of new congressional maps that could benefit Republicans in next year’s midterms. “Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty to Texans,” Abbott said in a statement. “By fleeing the state, Texas House Democrats are holding hostage critical legislation to aid flood victims and advance property tax relief. There are consequences for dereliction of duty (The Hill).

Love to see it.

HOLY SMOKES: Governor Abbott just dropped a bomb—4 of the 5 new Congressional seats in Texas will be majority HISPANIC.

And he says that’s exactly why Democrats are panicking.

It will show a MASSIVE shift of Hispanic and Black voters toward the GOP.

Governor Abbott made it… pic.twitter.com/RIKpOmW87b

— Overton (@overton_news) August 5, 2025

Dallas Morning News: “This truancy ends now. The derelict Democrat House members must return to Texas and be in attendance when the House reconvenes at 3:00 PM on Monday, August 4, 2025,” Abbott wrote. “For any member who fails to do so, I will invoke Texas Attorney General Opinion No. KP-0382 to remove the missing Democrats from membership in the Texas House.” The governor also accused House Democrats of committing felony crimes. “In addition to abandoning their offices, these legislators may also have committed felonies,” he wrote. “Many absentee Democrats are soliciting funds to evade the fines they will incur under House rules. (Dallas Morning News).

There may well be enough legal exposure here to support felony prosecutions, if Abbott wants to go to the mattresses. But what about declaring vacancies? The purpose of exercising that option is to reduce the quorum requirements that will allow the session to continue. Four years ago, after Democrat fleebaggers scuttled a special session only to have Abbott to declare another special session immediately afterward, AG Ken Paxton created a formal opinion warning that fleebagging constitutes a legal abandonment of office, a status which can be enforced by the executive branch via application to the judiciary (Hot Air).

State Attorney General Ken Paxton: “Instead of showing up to work and doing the jobs they were elected to do, House Democrat members have fled the state in a cowardly desertion of their responsibilities as elected officials. These jet-setting runaways abandoned Texas, abdicated their duties in the House, and sacrificed their constituents for a publicity stunt,” said Attorney General Paxton…. In 2021, Attorney General Paxton’s office successfully secured a Texas Supreme Court ruling that held that the House could arrest absent members to secure their presence and establish a quorum. That ruling helped create the current legal framework, which allows for rogue lawmakers to be found, arrested, and brought back to the Capitol. Attorney General Paxton will continue to use every legal tool at his disposal to enforce the law and stop the radical lawmakers from ignoring their duty to the people of Texas and breaking quorum (AG).