Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier spent Monday night locked in the Texas House of Representatives in Austin after refusing to sign a pledge to return for a vote on Republican redistricting proposals.
Collier’s protest came after 51 of the state’s opposition lawmakers fled for Illinois, New York and Massachusetts earlier this month to deny the GOP majority a quorum in the House, preventing it from holding a ballot on plans to create five new red seats ahead of next year’s midterms that would almost certainly have passed had the Democrats participated.
