In what at least one legal expert called long shot litigation, Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Illinois state Sen. Jil Tracy said Friday they asked a court in downstate Quincy to compel Illinois law enforcement to enforce civil warrants issued by the speaker of the Texas House against Democrats who fled their state.

Tracy, a veteran Republican lawmaker from Quincy, said she was deputized by Paxton as an uncompensated assistant Texas attorney general. She electronically filed the petition in Adams County Circuit Court, and said she thinks the Texas Democratic legislators “neglected their duty” by leaving their state weeks after they began a special session.

“It’s our job. You may not like the map. You may not like a bill. You vote ‘no.’ And you do your job. And you work t

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