Texas Democrats flee the lone star state, and do we need a nuclear reactor on the moon?

We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm doing, as always by the right, Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, Audrey, the reporter, Falberg, and the good neighbor.

Noah Rothman, you are, of course, listening to a Nashville podcast.

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podcast. If you don't like what you hear here, please forget. I said anything. So, Noah,

high drama in a lone star state special session to redraw the district lines mid-decade. Very unusual event

has happened before, but unusual, obviously responding

to pressure from Trump and the White House to get to squeeze some more Republican seats out of the

map ahead of the midterms. But Greg Abbott has said, well, some of these districts are

legally suspect because they are racial

gerrymanders.

That is the case, but there's no need to necessarily redraw the lines right now.

Texas Democrats up in arms saying, we're not going to stand for this and have left the state

to deny the legislature

a quorum we've seen this movie before elsewhere and in texas in particular and usually

everyone gets tired of living in hotels of not being gainfully employed anymore constituents

don't like it their fines in play play here in Texas, and they're

trying to squeeze them further by saying you can't have other people pay your fines because that

would be in effect a bribe, a quid pro quo, for you to stay away and obstruct the legislature's

business and very slim margins here.

If just a Democrat or two goes back, which I think will happen, they'll get a quorum.

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