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Anna Betts

Illinois governor says Texas Democrats who left will be protected amid arrest threats

a man in a suit speaks at a lectern as a room full of people look on
Illinois’s governor, JB Pritzker, speaks alongside the Texas state representatives Trey Martinez and Gene Wu in Carol Stream, Illinois, on Sunday. Photograph: Tom Krawczyk/Reuters

The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, has vowed to protect the Democratic members of the Texas house of representatives who left the state in an attempt to block Republican efforts to redraw Texas’s congressional maps.

“We’re going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them and make sure that – ’cause we know they’re doing the right thing, we know that they’re following the law,” Pritzker said at a press conference on Sunday in Illinois alongside some of the the Texas Democratic lawmakers.

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