While Texas Republicans are sounding the call for their colleagues’s arrest, the Democratic lawmakers are not expected to face significant repercussions. The House-issued warrants are largely seen as symbolic since they’re only actionable within Texas state lines and most of the missing legislators are currently in other jurisdictions.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a controversial vote on new congressional maps. “Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty to Texans,

By Julia Harte and Evan Garcia AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered Democratic lawmakers to be brought back to the state capital after they left Texas in a bid to prevent voting on a Republican plan to redraw the state's congressional districts.