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

State Rep. Vince Perez (D) and his colleagues have faced threats of arrest and violence for leaving the state to stop a "clearly racially engineered" map.

Texas Democrats faced a deadline of Friday at 2 p.m. ET to return to special session, but remained in place after Paxton said a lawsuit was filed to remove 13 of them from office.

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

Using the FBI to track down AWOL Texas Democrats is an unnecessary expansion of federal law enforcement authority.