‘He Fled The State’: Texas GOP Speaker Issues Arrest Warrant For Fleeing Texas Democrat

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The Daily Wire

Hank Berrien

Jul 27, 2021

After a Texas Democrat state representative returned to Austin from Washington D.C., where he and other Texas Democrats had flown in order to break the quorum in the House to stop the Texas GOP from passing voting bills, the Republican Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives signed a civil warrant for his arrest.

The Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Dade Phelan, issued the civil warrant for the arrest of state Rep. Philip Cortez from San Antonio. Phelan wrote:

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The Texas Democrats intend to stay away from Texas until after August 6, the last day of the special session.