From People.com…
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan has signed 52 arrest warrants for state Democrats who last month staged a walkout in protest of what they say are overly restrictive voting measures.
Democratic lawmakers in Texas fled the Lonestar State in July aboard two chartered jets in a surprise move meant to temporarily deny Republicans the ability to pass election reforms they say would make it harder to vote.
The arrest warrants signed Tuesday — an attempt to force the lawmakers to come back home after they effectively paralyzed the state’s House of Representatives — came after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that who refuse to comply could be detained by law enforcement and brought back to the state Capitol.
The surprise move made by Texas Democrats (known as a quorum break) was made in protest of a proposal that reportedly includes restrictions on 24-hour and drive-thru voting as well as changes to ID requirements.
