AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Texas to vacate the seats of 13 Democrat Texas House representatives who have fled the state to avoid a vote on U.S. Congressional redistricting.

“The rogue Democrat legislators who fled the state have abandoned their duties, leaving their seats vacant,” Paxton said in a press release. “These cowards deliberately sabotaged the constitutional process and violated the oath they swore to uphold. Their out-of-state rebellion cannot go unchecked, and the business of Texas must go on. I have asked the Texas Supreme Court to declare what has been clear from the beginning: that the runaway members have officially vacated their offices in the Texas House.”

Paxton said the lawsuit concentrates on 1

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