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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the man he is vying to unseat in next year’s Republican primary, US Sen. John Cornyn, are both using the powers of their offices to try to pressure Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to prevent a vote on a GOP-led redistricting plan.

Paxton on Friday said he was asking the state Supreme Court to remove 13 of the absent House Democrats from office, arguing in his lawsuit that those lawmakers “made incriminating public statements regarding their refusal to return, essentially confirming in their own words the very grounds for this legal action.”

Cornyn, meanwhile, asked the Federal Bureau of Investiga

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