Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, likened the missing Democrats to individuals who flee a state where they are committing a crime.

Republicans had warned they would escalate efforts to end the nearly weeklong holdout if defiant Democrats do not return to ...

Speaker Dustin Burrows gaveled in the Texas House Friday and no quorum was reached after the fifth day. One hundred state ...

Texas Democrats faced a deadline of Friday at 2 p.m. ET to return to special session, but remained in place after Paxton said ...

Democrats who left the state have shown no signs of buckling for now: A group was scheduled to appear later Friday with ...

The attorney general is calling on the “full faith and credit” clause of the Constitution, which says states should typically honor each other’s judicial proceedings.

Some GOP lawmakers have criticized the mid-decade effort by Texas Republicans to redraw the state's congressional boundaries.

The FBI will now help local law enforcement find the Democratic lawmakers who fled Texas in an attempt to block Republican’s ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking an Illinois court to force the arrest and return of Texas House Democrats who ...

Dozens of Texas House Democrats fled the state last Sunday to stop consideration of a proposed congressional redistricting ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the state's highest court to vacate the seats of more than a dozen Texas House ...