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FBaggins

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16. Not arrested and brought back

Reply to ananda (Reply #10)

Mon Aug 4, 2025, 07:17 AM

Aug 4

They came back on their own as it became clear that they could not convince senate Democrats to kill the filibuster for a national bill protecting voting rights in a way that could overcome what TX was then trying to do. That was after 38 days (mostly in DC)

In 2003 it was another mid-cycle redistricting effort and it was in OK.

In neither case were they arrested - though IIRC the governor did win a court ruling confirming that they could be seized if they were found in TX.

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