Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

Welcome to Case and Point. I'm Cully Stimson, and I am guest hosting the show today,

which is titled Democrats Run Away from the Alamo.

That Lone Star State has been much in the news over the past few weeks as Democrat state legislators have run out the back door of the state capital and fled the state.

They are trying to avoid the Texas House and Senate having a quorum in their special session called by Governor Greg Abbott to block a vote on a new congressional redistricting plan.

The absconding legislators have fled to politically friendly blue states like Illinois, Massachusetts, and California.

Civil warrants have been issued for their arrest.

The governor has directed the famous Texas Rangers to go after them,

and Texas has also asked the FBI to help

locate the fleeing legislators. Now, your usual host, Hans von Spakovsky, is actually my guest

today to help explain exactly what's going on in Texas with this mid-decade redistricting

due to Hans's expertise on voting issues. Hans, of course,

is a senior legal fellow at Heritage and the manager of our election law reform initiative.

Relevant to today's topic, however, is that he spent several years in the U.S. Department

of Justice as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General

for Civil Rights, where he was responsible for coordinating DOJ's enforcement of federal voting

rights laws, including monitoring state redistricting efforts. So I can't think of a better person

to do this. Hans kindly let me host his show. So Hans, walk us through what's actually going

on in Texas. And why is the state legislature engaging in redistricting in the middle of the decade?

Is this unusual? Well, it is unusual, but there's no law that prevents the state from doing that.

It's just most states, you know, redistricting is always such a hot political fight that most of them are

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