Michael Minasi | KUT News

Voter and civil rights organizations are seeking to block efforts by Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to expel 13 Democratic state representatives from office for their role in this summer's quorum break .

The groups filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Wednesday with the Supreme Court of Texas, the state's highest civil court, which will decide the case.

Abbott and Paxton filed their petitions to the state supreme court at the height of the Democratic quorum break, when more than 50 Democratic state representatives left the state to temporarily prevent the Texas House from voting on a Republican-led congressional redistricting plan designed to give the party as many as five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after the 202

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