Judge Scott Larson ruled that the Texas speaker and attorney general had “failed to present a legal basis for the court” to ...

A judge in downstate Quincy said that Illinois circuit courts do not have the “inherent power” to consider the effort by ...

An Illinois judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas against 33 House Democrats who absconded from the state ...

Texas House Democrats who fled to Illinois and other northern states to block a Republican-led congressional redistricting ...

Judge Scott Larson said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton “failed to present a legal basis” for the Illinois court to ...

An Adams County judge ruled his court “does not have the inherent power to direct Illinois law enforcement officers” to round ...

A federal judge in Illinois has rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's request to enforce arrest warrants for Democrats ...

A judge in Illinois denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to enforce civil arrest warrants for the absent Texas ...

On Wednesday, Judge Scott Larson of the Eighth Circuit Court of Illinois denied Paxton and Burrows’ demand to extend a Texas civil arrest warrant issued on August 8 for Democrats who fled, stating ...

Illinois law enforcement officers cannot arrest Texas House Democrats who have been staying in the northern state in protest ...

The judge says he doesn't have the power to decide whether the Democrats were violating civil warrants issued by the Texas ...