The Texas legislature has been unable to move on any legislation since the regular session gaveled out in May.
The court's ruling comes after a back and forth in lower courts during which Texas Democrats received a preliminary stay of their arrests.
This week — House Democrats who stopped participating in the quorum break are listed, the governor opts to pause elective procedures, and the state’s redistricting tools are set to be ready by September.
Some Texas Democrats received a temporary reprieve from the threat of arrest after Harris County judges issued prohibitive orders.
Arrest warrants have been issued for much of the House Democratic Caucus after nearly a month of legislative stalemate.
The Texas Supreme Court declined to block Gov. Abbott’s veto of legislative funding, saying that the dispute is between lawmakers and not the two branches of government.
Immediately after its filing, various Democrats stated they did not authorize the lawsuit that named them as plaintiffs.
This week — a lawmaker files a bill to vacate seats of absent legislators, two Texas legislators are arrested in Washington, D.C., and another GOP challenger jumps into the race against a suburban Democrat.
The purported vacation comes while their Democratic colleagues continue their stay in the nation's capital.
After three weeks of no quorum and most of the Democratic caucus out of state, the Texas House remains frozen — unable to carry out any business.
Though it faces difficulty in passing, a Republican senator has proposed to strip the governor of his line-item veto authority after he used it to cut funding to the legislature.
Speaker Dade Phelan issued a civil arrest warrant for Rep. Philip Cortez who, after returning to Austin last week, flew back to D.C. on Sunday to continue the quorum break.
