Posted on 08/12/2025 8:14:13 AM PDT by cuz1961
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The redistricting controversy in Texas has reached Tehama County.
Shawn Cowles, an attorney representing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, filed suit in Tehama County Superior Court on Friday, looking to force the return of six Democrat legislators....
(Excerpt) Read more at eastbaytimes.com ...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4334131/posts
Texas AG picks Tehama courthouse for the next stage of redistricting standoff
And
https://www.redbluffdailynews.com/2025/08/09/texas-ag-files-suit-in-tehama-court-to-force-fleeing-democrats-home/
This one states the venue can be granted.
They are living the good life off of some donor’s money. “More champagne? More everything?”
Having lived in Tehema county
I can sure you there is no redder part of California.
They host the world famous Rodeo Roundup.
This county has a nick name bestowed by convicted felons.
They call it
ToHangYa county.
This is very very very good news for Texas and the nation
And very very very bad news for democriminals.
This county , its citizens, it’s LEO and it’s courts take law enforcement seriously.
Even the Mexican gangs mind their manners there and avoid this county like the plague.
I even once saw chuck Norris fueling his truck in Red Bluff once during rodeo week.
Go Paxton
God Bless Texas !
Prosecute the donors for giving bribes. That will shut this crap down.
Nice bit of judge shopping. Glad to see Republicans can do it too.
“The Texas lawsuit argues that the “Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution” compels California to help.
The suit argues “this Court should issue such orders to effectuate the Quorum Warrants, just as if they were acts of the state of California and treat the Quorum Warrants as its own civil order.”
“Texas respectfully requests the Court issue a rule to show cause why Defendants should not be held in contempt for their knowing efforts to evade Texas’s duly issued Quorum Warrants,” the suit reads.”
How about conspiracy and collusion?
Nice bit of judge shopping. Glad to see Republicans can do it too.
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Hmmm , now that I think about it,
Wonder if it might have been chuck that suggested tehama to Paxton.
/-)
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““More champagne? More everything?””
In Red Bluff? LOL
Exactly.
Why have they not been removed from their position yet?
More champagne
/
Ya,,no.
You’re right, red bluff doesn’t think much of girlie drinks
Steak and beer
( or whiskey)
would be more like it.
Or anything BBQ.
There is no criminal allegation involved. There is no action of the State involved. Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows issued civil warrants.
The Complaint invokes 28 U.S.C. § 1738 which pertains to "State and Territorial statutes and judicial proceedings." The Texas quota warrant is issued by the Speaker of the House and it relates neither to a state statute or judicial proceeding. In the absence of a quorum, the House as a body can take no official action. The Texas quota warrant is not an official act of the State, or the Legislature of a state.
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Complaint_2.pdf
6. Defendants knew that the Texas Constitution specifically authorizes each House of the Legislature to “compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may prescribe.” Tex. Const. Art. III Sec. 10; see also In re Abbott, 628 S.W.3d 288, 292–93 (Tex. 2021) (holding that civil arrest of absent members was “valid exercise” of power granted to the House under Texas Constitution). Thus, Defendants knew that they could and would be subject to arrest if they refused to attend the Special Session. To evade this lawful civil arrest, Defendants conspired to and did leave Texas for California. Each did so with the intention of obstructing the Texas Legislature from functioning as it is required by the Texas Constitution and evading lawful civil arrest.7. On August 4, 2025, the Texas House of Representatives acted in accordance with Article III, § 10 of the Texas Constitution and its Rules of Procedure adopted pursuant to Article III, § 11 of the Texas Constitution (the “Quorum Order”), moving to instruct the Sergeant-At-Arms of the Texas House of Representatives to secure and maintain the attendance of absentee Members of the Texas House. Ex. 3 at 92; Ex. 4 at 21–22.
8. Accordingly, Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows issued civil warrants for the members who had deliberately and without excuse broken quorum. Ex. 5. The civil arrest warrants (the “Quorum Warrants”) were duly and lawfully issued pursuant to the Quorum Order. Texas requests and is entitled to the assistance of its sister State, the State of California, to enforce the Quorum Order and Quorum Warrant as to each of the Texas House members breaking quorum and evading civil arrest in California.
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22. The Texas Legislature is currently unable to exercise its essential lawmaking function on behalf of its People by reason of the actions of Texas legislators who have fled Texas during a Special Session duly called by the Governor of Texas in accordance with its Constitution. Specifically, these legislators have conspired with each other and with others not named herein for the purpose of depriving the Texas House of Representatives of a quorum and disabling it from enacting laws in accordance with the Texas Constitution.
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https://law.justia.com/codes/us/title-28/part-v/chapter-115/sec-1738/
28 U.S.C. § 1738 (2023)§1738. State and Territorial statutes and judicial proceedings; full faith and credit
The Acts of the legislature of any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or copies thereof, shall be authenticated by affixing the seal of such State, Territory or Possession thereto.
The records and judicial proceedings of any court of any such State, Territory or Possession, or copies thereof, shall be proved or admitted in other courts within the United States and its Territories and Possessions by the attestation of the clerk and seal of the court annexed, if a seal exists, together with a certificate of a judge of the court that the said attestation is in proper form.
Such Acts, records and judicial proceedings or copies thereof, so authenticated, shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within the United States and its Territories and Possessions as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State, Territory or Possession from which they are taken.
How about “Interstate Flight to avoid prosecution?”
Sounds good too :)
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