From DailyWire.com…
The fact-checking website PolitiFact has come under scrutiny for maintaining that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) made a “false” statement about the ability to arrest runaway Texas legislators, even after the Texas Supreme Court, per Cruz, “agreed.” The website appeared to seize on one word the senator uttered in order to cast doubt on the underlying facts.
“There is clear legal authority to handcuff and put in leg irons legislators that are trying to stop the legislature from being able to do business,” Senator Cruz told USA Today after dozens of Democratic lawmakers fled the state last month to deny Republicans a quorum to pass an election integrity bill. Several members subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.
Cruz said the issue had come before him during his tenure as the state’s Solicitor General (2003 to 2008).
PolitiFact agrees that the Texas state constitution declares, “Two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may … compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide.” (Article III, Sec. 10).
