Texas Judge Blocks Arrest Warrant for Fleeing Democrats

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A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the arrest warrant for multiple Democrats who fled the state to avoid voting on an elections bill.

The Hill reports:

District Judge Brad Urrutia on Sunday signed the temporary restraining order, blocking attempts from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and state House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) from restricting, detaining or confining the lawmakers, paving the way for them to safely return to the state.

The move had been requested Friday by 22 members of the state House, the American-Statesman reported.

The order applies to the state’s House sergeant-at-arms, the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS), Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies.

“Angry Republican threats to dispatch troopers to arrest, cuff, shackle, drag in, and cabin duly-elected lawmakers isn’t just meant to chill our speech and impair our ability to represent our districts; it has left our families, friends, and neighbors anxious for our wellbeing and safety,” state Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D) said in a written statement.

The governor of Texas issued a civil arrest warrant Rep. Philip Cortez, however, he returned to Texas to begin working on a compromise with Republicans. There are still over 20 Texas Democrats that have yet to return to the Lone Star state.



    1. COLOMBIAN BORN OR DESCENDED LEFTY LATINO ELITIST FROM THE COLOMBIAN RULING CLASS. ANOTHER ELITIST/RICH/ BOLSHIE/ GLOBALIST AT WORK IN THE SWAMP!

    1. Both parties need to strip them of the ability TO vote on the issues they have held up being voted on ……..they are not fit to be in Texas politics if elected and they did not do the jobs they promised to do when they ran for office……..hells bells, thats kinda like breaking a contract with We the People…..if you don’t do your job, FIRE EM…sounds very familiar ? Guess they figured if other in high places could get away with it so they put in their two cents worth of effort……..

  1. I would ask Rep . Hinojosa just how running off to DC on a junket is representing the people of her district ? Seems to me that they wanted a group party ment to hinder representation of constituents . Running off to block a vote is not representation .

  2. Judges are a joke. Common people go to jail and politicians are above the law.Those democrats should be removed from office.

  3. Nothing new here. We have long known the law is different for Democrats. We have as examples, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Joe’s Brother, Eric Swalwel, and the list goes on.

    1. That is why Jan 6 was justified and with no fair ballot, the bullet remains the last and only alternative of an abused and oppressed people.

  4. I hope the voters remember this stunt come the next election. I don’t vote for representatives that run from a fight!

      1. From another Vietnam Vet, US Navy aboard CVA-34. Those that vote and those who don’t exist who vote are both fraudulent and ignorant, at least many of them.

  5. If the President doesn’t have to listen to the Supreme Court over eviction moratorium…why should the Governor of Texas have to listen to some peon Democrat appointed Judge? I mean really Joe Biden has set the precedence for all law makers you don’t have to listen to the COURT. Arrest those fleeing bastards.

    1. I still think if we Texicans took away their positions for not working at the job they were to do, then fire them. They did not do the duty they were to do, they ran like silly rabbits to not have to vote ? Excuse me ? Don’t people without privileges’ of office get to work that way ? Shoot NO !!! That judge is a coward too, to call this okay for them to have done…..however it was said this was TEMP order ? When in 20 years they were be ordered to do what is right? They have cost our state more time and money than they each are worth……..shoddy lot……….

      1. Start the impeachment process against all of them! Use the power you have now before the illegal aliens are allowed to vote and they steal TX from the people.

  6. Another scumbag judge! Are we surprised ?! No law and order here at all! I hope Abbot gets this overturned ASAP! Those bastards are always sliming their way out of these things always! I hope that plane crashes with them in it!

  7. While the may safely return to Texas, the judge’s order says nothing about what’s going to happen to them once they get there . . . .

    1. Don’t want them dead, want them working at the job they took on, and not to be paid for the lost time and cost to the state for that little vacation.

        1. True. They should be declared to have resigned their offices by their refusal to perform the function of their offices.

  8. since when does a federal judge get involved in state’s matters? Just ignore the “judgment” just like the Biden administration has done regarding the SCOTUS ruling on the illegal rent moratorium. What’s sauce for the goose.

  9. Such bullshit, Dumbocrats do whatever they want with no repructctions. Domestic Terrorist that only obstruct the flow of government policy! Texas needs to fire their asses!

  10. Democratic POS they do not serve the people of Texas! Set a bounty on their heads and I’ll help round their asses up!

  11. Once the coward Democrats are back in the state the Texas State Supreme court needs to overturn this rogue partisan judge’s overstep and the state troopers need to be ready to arrest them and return them to work.

  12. Arrest them anyway. If Texas law establishes this action then enforce it and the judge can pound sand.

  13. The “president” acknowledges violating our Constitution so why doesn’t Governor Abbot just ignore this judge.

  14. Now it is time we the peasants start our uprising because if we do not wake up, we will be cornered like the cockroaches ready to be squashed with dem pointed cowboy boots

  15. You Texas Dems HAVE IMPAIRED YOUR OWN ABILITY to do your job when you left the house when in session because you knew you were going to lose the vote. You are nothing but a bunch of panty waste and have no business be in your elected position. You are the ones putting yourself and your families life at risk. No one else to blame but yourself.

  16. The Judge is a Democrat too. He should have recused himself from the case, but Democrat Crime Cartel members are never known for being fair players. He should be brought before the state bar ethics board.

  17. I do not see how one branch of government can control the actions of the other in the proper exercise of their duties, but I have not read the court’s opinion.

    1. These highly partisan judges don’t even have to be “bought off”. They are willing accomplices.

  18. God these judges are scum! Democrats are always allowed to get away with their bs it’s time to hold these losers accountable.

  19. Do just like the demos and arrest them when they return and fight the judge in court. Has no business in the running of the legislature. Impeach the Judge and run him intoNY. They will love him there!

  20. Another useless democract judge, protecting the useless democracts. Think he should be arrested along with them for breaking the law. Taking bribes to save his butt and there’s. The governor should have the judge arrested too

  21. This judge shouldn’t engage in this political effort to prevent the Texas government from ensuring that these office holders perform their duty to be present at the legislature as required by their offices.

  22. Meanwhile, these lying, thieving Democrat crooks are still drawing their Taxpayer paychecks! Your typical Crooked Democrat, screwing the taxpayer every opportunity they get!

  23. Phelan and Abbott are both responsible for all this mess. The bills that they say they want to bring forward were on the table 1st go around. No excuse to have not brought them to the floor then other than they didn’t want them there. Both of them are pandering to the left in the back room while singing another song to the right. If you want to see how a real Republican Governor functions, just look down to Florida. Election time will come again and there will be a solid conservative in the game. Huffines. Just check his voting record. It speaks for itself. Abbott needs to go.

  24. Some say they were hired first they were elected then they receive a paycheck for services rendered. They failed to meet their obligation to the taxpayers who elected them so go to the polls and vote for someone dependable which would be a Republican. Arresting them sounds good but fines for the time they were failing to show up would be appropriate. Remember when President Trump stopped Pelosi from using governments flight out of the country and made her groupies fly private. Gov, Abbot may be able to make the fleeing dems pay for their own flights.

  25. The real down and dirty truth is that this “judge” as well as the cowardly Democrats who fled to Washington really don’t give a rat’s rear end what “we the people” think about them! Secession is inevitable if we are to ever have a representative government!! The Liberal/communist Left stole the vote of 75 million taxpaying citizens and NOTHING will ever happen to them! They will continue to lie, cheat and wipe out our vote because they know they can get by with it. I have NO faith in our electoral process, our judicial system or our Supreme Court!! SECEDE and join other Conservative states to form a government that recognizes the rule of law, our God given rights and our time tested Judeo/Christian way of life!!!

  26. I constantly hear this garbage from elected officials about “we are a nation of laws” and “we must follow the law” and then they refuse to follow the law. I say the hell with the law and screw this judge. Go ahead and grab these worthless demo reps put them in solitary confinement. Let them go to congress via zoom like our kids were doing for the last year.

  27. This dam. Judge. Needs to let the governor of Texas do his job s. What is best for Texas. If he can’t the. Get the heck off the bench. Theses democrats are off. Not doing their job. The one that people voted them to do. Sure hope next time around. The votes these idiots OUT. If office. All the time they ate out of the state they should not be getting a dam cent for a pay

  28. I do not understand why democratic judges can not read. The law is there for them to follow and all they have to do is read it.

  29. Arrest all these worthless,dumbocrap,incompetent, politicians, once they touch down in Texas, tell the judge to shove it.

  30.  to chill our speech and impair our ability to represent our districts.” You did that when you left the state.

  31. There is obviously no equal justice anymore in courts with sitting democRAT judges. In today’s Marxist inspired democRAT power world If you are Republican and democRAT judges know it they throw the book at you. But, if you are a sniveling coward the likes of a Texas democRAT legislator the same judges let you off with a wink and a nod. Thanks to the likes of, for instance, the Obama and Biden crowd lady justice is not blind anymore.

  32. It appears that Democrats elected to the Texas state legislature are AFRAID to show up and do their jobs, IN THE LEGISLATURE !!! After all, they would then be ON THE RECORD for opposing doing what Texans ELECTED THEM TO DO !!! They KNOW that the majority would vote against their rotten idea ; and they would LOSE !!! So, they “chickened out” and left the state ; in order to prevent a quorum, and prevent passage of a law which they opposed !!! Is that supposed to be “representation ?” No, that is ABANDONING THE JOB !!! They were, effectively,” AWOL,” Absent Without Leave !!! This is not tolerated in the military service, or nearly anywhere else !!! Perhaps, like President Reagan eventuallyn did with the Air Traffic Controllers’strike ; they SHOULD BE FIRED FOR CAUSE !!!

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