"This court must give full faith and credit to warrants duly issued by the Texas House of Representatives," the lawsuit states.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed suit seeking to force Illinois authorities to assist with returning nearly three dozen Democrats who fled to block a vote on a GOP redistricting plan.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is asking an Illinois court to enforce arrest warrants against Democrats who fled to the Prairie State over GOP efforts to redraw Texas’s congressional maps. On Monday,