Posted on 08/07/2021 9:31:08 AM PDT by DFG
Almost two dozen Texas Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C. last month in order to block two 'restrictive' voting reform bills proposed by Republicans have now filed a lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott.
Abbott - who is Republican - threatened to arrest the lawmakers when they eventually return to the Lone Star state after they packed onto private jets and flew to the nation's capitol on July 12.
On Friday, 22 of the Democrats filed a complaint in federal court in Austin claiming that Republican attempts to bring them home for a special legislative session is a violation of their rights.
The plaintiffs claim they 'have been deprived of liberty for substantial periods of time, [and] suffered much anxiety and distress over the separation from their families.
They also say they have suffered from 'much discomfort and embarrassment' because their reputations have been 'impaired'.
In addition to Abbott, GOP House Speaker Dade Phelan and State Rep. James White are also named as defendants in the suit.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The plaintiffs claim they ‘have been deprived of liberty for substantial periods of time
Show of hands please from everyone that got a one month vacation from their jobs this summer?
America truly needs a purge.
that one fat woman whose face in right in front of most of the pictures taken in the plane will have a hard time comping with life and living this down.... everyone everywhere will recognize her where ever she may go... “Hey aren’t you that democrat that was on all those pictures of yall leaving TX and going to DC and spreading covid....
The Dems can call their opponents Nazis and fascists and KKKers and white-supremacists and racists, but don’t you DARE say anything bad about THEM!
“America truly needs a purge.”
A flush.
Poor babies.
Not yet winter & the Snowflakes are busy.
It is not possible to "impair" the reputation of a Democrat politician.
… or to tell the truth about them?
Why haven't the Republicans charged them with bribery according to the Texas Constitution?
Why do Republicans always hold back from using their ace in the hole EVERY SINGLE TIME?
If Republicans had the nerve to enforce their own Constitution and level bribery charges against these fleeing Democrats, they wouldn't have had the opportunity to set the narrative first with their own lawsuit against the Republicans.
Texas House Democrats are guilty of accepting a bribe to withhold their vote under the Texas Constitution, and should have their House seats vacated.
According to the Texas State Constitution:
Article 16 Section 41:While the seats are vacant, a new quorum can be reached with the sitting House. That's when they can take the vote on election reform.Sec. 41. BRIBERY AND SOLICITATION OR ACCEPTANCE OF BRIBES. Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, offer, give, or promise, any money or thing of value, testimonial, privilege or personal advantage, to any executive or judicial officer or member of the Legislature to influence him in the performance of any of his public or official duties, shall be guilty of bribery, and be punished in such manner as shall be provided by law. And any member of the Legislature or executive or judicial officer who shall solicit, demand or receive, or consent to receive, directly or indirectly, for himself, or for another, from any company, corporation or person, any money, appointment, employment, testimonial, reward, thing of value or employment, or of personal advantage or promise thereof, for his vote or official influence, or for withholding the same, or with any understanding, expressed or implied, that his vote or official action shall be in any way influenced thereby, or who shall solicit, demand and receive any such money or other advantage matter or thing aforesaid for another, as the consideration of his vote or official influence, in consideration of the payment or promise of such money, advantage, matter or thing to another, shall be held guilty of bribery, within the meaning of the Constitution, and shall incur the disabilities provided for said offenses, with a forfeiture of the office they may hold, and such other additional punishment as is or shall be provided by law.
The Texas Constitution is there for all to see. The question now is whether the Republicans have the nerve to act like Democrats and enforce their own Constitution to kick the fleeing Democrats out of the House that they vacated.
-PJ
“The fact is you’ve run
That can’t be undone.
Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares
Travis Tritt
They ran out of Miller Lite.
“shockingly short of legal merit.”
Jonathan Turley-
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/07/texas-democratics-sue-over-effort-to-force-them-back-to-austin-to-vote/
No problem. Come to Austin to attend the hearing! Lol
And how did that make feeeel! If we can sue for emotional distress, I want to sue the political class for 20 years of deliberate criminal corruption causing me many lost nights of sleep and non stop emotional distress. Maybe we could make it a class action suit.
Oh, deprived of liberty, eh?
You commies never seem to have a problem with depriving liberty from masks (while yourselves don’t use them), from illegals coming in and spreading disease. From scumbags destroying cities, etc.
Hmmmm.... so every ,ast latriot that has been politicaly harassed and arrested by the gov can sue for those reasons too then huh?
Yes. Pelousy has done more harm to America than almost anyone (except her Puppetmeister SorozNazi, of course).
Doctoring the “eligibility” document enabling Obama to be installed in our White House,
Shoving O-care down our throats (2400 page legislative bill that she would not let any of our elected reps even read ... actually saying that “we have to pass O-care before we can see what’s in it”). An unconstitutional bill (no thanks to “Justice” Roberts the lying basturd, just read his opinion and you’ll see how patently duplicious it, he is) .. adopted via an unconstitutional process, and which doesn’t/can’t work anyway
Not one but two patently unjustified “impeachments” to impede President Trump in office, not a one of her charges was true... and even if they’d all been true, they did not constitute anything near impeachable offenses anyway
imho, she deserves to be retired to Guantanamo (since Doctor Guillotine is no longer with us, alas)
I think because the jerks never went back. First of all cuz they got COVID. LOL
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