Texas Democratic lawmakers remained out of the state Thursday as Republican leaders escalated legal threats to force their ...

The attorney general is calling on the “full faith and credit” clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says states should ...

After leaving Texas for Illinois to prevent a legislative vote on a Republican redistricting plan, state House Democratic ...

Texas Senator John Cornyn said that the FBI has agreed to assist Texas law enforcement in tracking down members of the Texas ...

The legislators who fled the state face a daily fine, but they have also left behind their day jobs in Texas in order to ...

Texas Democrats left the state to stop a Republican-led effort to change the state’s congressional boundaries, setting off a ...

The chair of the Texas House Democratic caucus remained defiant Thursday in the face of one US senator’s bid to enlist the FBI’s help in returning him and his state House colleagues to the state.

Gov. Greg Abbott asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu from his seat, arguing that Wu abandoned his office by fleeing the state.

In a dramatic escalation of partisan conflict, Texas House Democrats have fled the state to Illinois, effectively blocki ...

Wu's ethnicity has been a frequent target of Republicans, including party officials, during his time in office.

Houston State Rep. Gene Wu, who Gov. Greg Abbott called the "ringleader" of Texas Democrats who fled, and other party leaders reported a bomb threat on Wednesday.

Abbott is pushing to vacate seats of legislators who fled Texas to halt passage of a GOP-engineered congressional map.