A motion to issue arrest warrants for the dozens of Texas Democrat legislators who fled the state Sunday to prevent their Republican colleagues from voting on a congressional redistricting map has been passed by the state’s House of Representatives.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confirmed that he will work to “hunt down” the 51 Democrats who left Texas in order to delay the vote in a statement on X:

“Democrats in the Texas House who try and run away like cowards should be found, arrested, and brought back to the Capitol immediately,” Paxton wrote following reports that the lawmakers fled to blue states like Illinois in protest of the Republican-favored redistricting .

He added, “We should use every tool at our disposal to hunt down those who think they are above the law.”

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