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When Texas House Democrats broke quorum over GOP-led redistricting efforts in 2025, Gov. Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit requesting the state’s highest court remove House Minority Leader Rep. Gene Wu, (D-Houston) from office. On Friday, the SCOTX denied that request.
to remove Rep. Gene Wu, a Houston Democrat and party leader in the Texas House, from office over his role in the high-profile, 2025 quorum break over congressional redistricting.
The court’s Friday opinion is a blow to Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton. The Republicans had. Abbott and Paxton argued Wu and his quorum-breaking Democratic colleagues abandoned their jobs when they didn’t show up to debate newly proposed district lines.
While the court did not rule about the legality of quorum breaking in general, it made clear that the Texas Constitution already gives the Texas Legislature tools to deal with absent members. Those include steps like“Courts have uniformly recognized that it is not their role to resolve disputes between the other two branches that those branches can resolve for themselves,” wrote Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock in Friday’s move, however, does leave the door open for future attempts to remove quorum breaking lawmakers from office.
That’s because the Supreme Court of Texas didn’t weigh in on the overall legality of Abbott and Paxton’s request, saying this specific situation had already been resolved.new congressional maps Nationally, Texas’ mid-decade redistricting sparked a race by states to gerrymander their districts ahead of the 2026 election — a fight that is
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