Dozens of Democratic lawmakers from Texas who left the state to stop a Republican effort to redraw voting districts are planning their return after being away for ten days. The legislators, who stayed up late to discuss their next steps, have said they will not go back to Austin until the first special legislative session officially ends. As the session comes to a close, the Democrats have started to list their demands for Governor Abbott and have also begun calling their protest a success.
The Texas House Democratic group recently released a statement saying they were working on a plan to return. As found by MSNBC, the chairman of the state Democratic Caucus, Gene Wu, shared a new statement defining their success as having stopped a quorum from ever being reached during the first special session.
