Update: The Texas House voted Tuesday to authorize the use of arrest warrants to compel the Democrats who flee the special session to attend. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Democrat state legislators who left a special session to protest against a voting overhaul bill “will be arrested” when they return from Washington D.C. The lawmakers on Monday announced that they left Texas to deny Republican lawmakers quorum to convene the special legislative session to consider an election overhaul in the state and confirmed they left on a charter flight to Washington. Members of the Democrat caucus staged a similar walkout on May 30 to block the election overhaul bill, which calls for limits on early and curbside voting, bans 24-hour voting centers, limits the usage of ballot drop-boxes, and other provisions. Abbott, a Republican, told KVUE-TV that the House speaker’s office has the power to arrest the lawmakers and he …
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