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.
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Wake up repukelican party! They’re freaking outcrazying you every second of every day!
Is there a published list of names of these twits on the filing somewhere?
They’ll win the suit with the judge in Austin.
Use this irrational breakdown against them, proves they’re mentally and emotionally unfit to fulfill their duties of office, by being scared of the rules and laws they’ve sworn to uphold!
-PJ
Arrest them, charge them with bribery AND hold a quorum vote. Republicans lack gonads. Democraps never hold back when they’re in charge.
These woke snowflakes think that a person can be criminally held responsible for the charge of embarrassment.
So the Governor waltzed into the House and forced them to get on a bus, with a case of beer to soothe their anxieties, provided a private plane with instructions to land in DC and deposit them with the rest of the Democratic cry babies to save their a$$es.
I’m in Austin and can tell you, lots of freaks here support these rats. If we lose TX, the country is toast.
Do as we say, not as we do anyone??
Their DCsummer vacation was probably very expensive too seeing Frank Lutz had no vacancies.
Nope. Not arrested yet.
One came home last week... Made a speech and then left again. Abbott not following through.
There are 469 comments at the DM site. I scanned about 100 and I found TWO actually sympathetic to them and those two were more anti-Abbott than sympathetic to these scumbag losers. Most comments were very anti-Dem, fed up with them not doing their jobs, and disgusted with their behavior.
This is a bit of encouragement.
Babylon Bee?
Ok. Notice their depositions so they’re required to appear
You can't slander garbage by saying it stinks.
Morons!!!
Um, no one has been deprived of liberty. If they were in custody then that could be a legitimate claim.
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