Members of the Texas state House vowed to continue their fight against Republicans’ efforts to redraw the congressional district map after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordered their arrests for leaving the state to deny the chamber quorum.

A group of state House members and Texas Democrats in the U.S. House gathered for a press conference on Monday after the state legislators left the Lone Star State to prevent the GOP from voting on a measure that would enact mid-decade redistricting and could help them pick up seats in next year’s midterm elections.

Although the state House members who are still in Texas came together earlier in the day for the special legislative session that Abbott called, they were unable to conduct any business because of the lack of quorum, which requires two-thirds of the members to be present. While Democrats are a significant minority in the body, more than 50 of them left the state for Illinois, New York or Massachusetts.

Those who went to Illinois slammed the proposed map as “blatant racism” during the........

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