Greg ABBOTT files is a lawsuit to remove the Speaker of the Democratic Parliament in re -dividing the districts
The governor of the state, Greg Abbott, applied in the emergency situations on Tuesday to the Supreme Court of Texas to remove the deputy of the state Jane Woo from his post after Wu and other Democrats left the state to delay the Republican efforts to redraw the boycott lines of Congress.
Case From Abbott, a fans, argues that Wu, the Speaker of the House of Representatives in Texas, violates the state constitution and that his absence was the position of abandonment.
With their absence, Republican Democrats prohibited the fact that the legislative quorum needed to move forward with plans to redraw the borders in Congress and gave the Republican Party five seats in the House of Representatives in Congress.
The lawsuit argues that the provisions of the quorum make attendance in the State Council “a positive constitutional commitment.”
“The actor Wu publicly abandoned these constitutional states by fleeing from Texas to break the quorum, obstruct legislative procedures, and paralyze the parliament in Texas.”
“Avoiding the state during a constitutionally dedicated session, not for the legal issue, but for the purpose of sabotaging the ability of the legislature to work, it is a flagrant violation of Wu’s performance, which is intended to abandon his constitutional duty,” and he adds.
Wu did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday evening, but in a statement Houston headquarters KHOHe claimed that he did not give up his duties.
Wu said: “Let me be unambiguous in my actions and my duty. When a conservative conspires with a disgraceful president of taste through a racist racist map, my constitutional duty is not to be a participant in willingness.”
He added: “The ruler’s deprivation that the legal quorum was not like this for my office; that was a right -wing investigation. He is unable to defend his corrupt agenda on his advantages, Greg Abbott is now seeking to silence opposition by removing his position official from the office.”
Wu said Social media Sunday from Illinois he was “on the ground in Chicago … fighting for the rights of Texas and all Americans.”
Abbott said in a statement that Wu and more than 50 other Democrats who left the state failed to meet the quorum’s requirements to refuse to return.
He said: “Democrats in Texas are devoid of their duty towards Texas, and there must be consequences.”
It was Abbott Warning in a statement on Sunday He will seek to remove the Democrats if they are not present when the House of Representatives held the next day. During the absence of democratic legislators on Monday, the state’s public safety Ministry ordered the arrest of them after a vote from the House of Representatives to force the sergeant to the weapons to “send the“ return of legislators ”according to the arrest warrant, if necessary.
In response to a question about whether the FBI and the federal government should be involved in determining the location of the legislators and arresting it, President Donald Trump told the reporters earlier on Tuesday that they “might have to do so.”
He said, “Many people have called for back. You cannot sit on it. You have to return. You have to fight it. This is what the elections are around.”