'Time for them to get to the Capitol and do the job they were elected to do,' Gov. Abbott tweeted.
Dozens of House Democrats are in the process of breaking quorum in an attempt to prevent a GOP-backed voting restrictions bill that some Democrats say enables voter suppression, from becoming law.
The Texas Supreme Court halted an order Thursday that was previously issued by a Harris County judge that protected Texas House Democrats from arrest. Here, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appears on at the state Capitol building on July 10 in Austin, Texas.floor for a 15-hour all-night filibuster in a last-ditch effort to stop the bill, the voting restrictions bill passed the Senate in an 18-11 tally Thursday morning.
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