Abbott Renews Push to Oust State Lawmakers Who Fled Texas to Block Redistricting Vote
19th September 2025
Politico, a Voice of the Crust.
Gov. Greg Abbott has renewed his legal push to oust dozens of legislators who fled Texas in August to briefly derail a hyperpartisan redrawing of the state’s congressional district boundaries.
In a letter to the state Supreme Court, Abbott’s attorneys say even though Democrats abandoned their effort to block the redistricting maneuver, those who left the state — including Texas House Democratic leader Gene Wu — should still lose their jobs over it.
“Ouster is the time-tested consequence for conduct like Wu’s. Absent action by this Court, quorum breaking threatens to become our new normal,” Abbott’s lawyer Trevor Ezell wrote.