EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to reconvene for the 89th legislative session at 12 p.m. MT on Friday, Aug. 8, but it seems unlikely that the over 50 Democrats who left the state to break quorum will show up, despite pressure from Republicans.

“These are the worst maps that we have seen since the 1960s and the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The implications for the Hispanic Latino community in Texas are going to be really bad for decades to come. So I'm prepared to continue talking about these maps,” State Rep. Vince Perez, D-El Paso, said in an interview Thursday afternoon, Aug. 7, when asked if he was going to be present at the special session on Friday.

Perez is one of 50 members of the Texas Democratic Caucus who left the state earlier this

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