Rep. Nicole Collier spends night on Texas House floor after refusing police escort

[VySky]

Rep. Nicole Collier spends night on Texas House floor after refusing police escort​

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/19/nicole-collier-texas-house-dps-escort-redistricting-quorum/
The Fort Worth Democrat refused to sign a permission slip that allowed quorum-breaking lawmakers to leave the Capitol while being shadowed by a state trooper.
A Texas House Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan.

Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, declined on Monday afternoon to sign a slip giving her permission from Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, to leave the House floor with a state law enforcement officer shadowing her.

"I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts," Collier said in a statement Monday. "When I press that button to vote, I know these maps will harm my constituents — I won't just go along quietly with their intimidation or their discrimination."

Just over two dozen Democratic lawmakers, including Collier, on Monday ended their walkout over a congressional redistricting plan — demanded by President Donald Trump just four years after Republicans last redrew Texas' map — that is designed to pad the GOP's slim U.S. House majority in next year's midterm election.

A Texas House Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan.

Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, declined on Monday afternoon to sign a slip giving her permission from Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, to leave the House floor with a state law enforcement officer shadowing her.

"I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts," Collier said in a statement Monday. "When I press that button to vote, I know these maps will harm my constituents — I won't just go along quietly with their intimidation or their discrimination."

Just over two dozen Democratic lawmakers, including Collier, on Monday ended their walkout over a congressional redistricting plan — demanded by President Donald Trump just four years after Republicans last redrew Texas' map — that is designed to pad the GOP's slim U.S. House majority in next year's midterm election.
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Republicans have sunk to a new low, using gestapo tactics against another American.
How the hell is this happening in the United States? This is outrageous. This Texas Democrat is being held against her will, and all because she refused to sign an agreement to have armed guards preventing her from the freedom to move around freely. She will be held there until tomorrow morning, against her will, when the state legislators reconvene. Democrats that left the state and since returned were instructed that they could only leave the House floor with written permission and under law enforcement escort.

This is a blatant abuse of power by the Republican majority. This detention is unlawful on so many levels and violates her rights under the Constitution. Damned Republicans are swine, absolute scum, and will be held accountable in the midterms. They should all be locked up in El Salvador, in CECOT, with the most dangerous prisoners there.

The Democrats are so fricking stupid.

 

[Plasmaball]

Hopefully…she has sweet dreams.

How un-American

 

[ScrambledEggs]

Fantastic. So they are being imprisoned or under police supervision without due process. Awesome.

You People truly deserve what you are building.

Remember when they were all mad because they were asked to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic

 

[RaleBulgarian]

So now they're hassling people in the shitter?

Apparently, just Dems.

 

[dcsports]

You [deflection removed]

Again, thank you for proving my point. I'm not interested in your deflection and name calling. Good luck.

 

[Luce]

Again, thank you for proving my point. I'm not interested in your deflection and name calling. Good luck.

I do like how you have to erase my post in order to argue it.

 

[dcsports]

I do like how you have to erase my post in order to argue it.

There was nothing material to 'argue' in the post. It was deflection and childish insults. I'm not going to repost that. Your post is still there.

 

[Luce]

There was nothing to 'argue' in the post. It was deflection and childish insults. I'm not going to repost that.

Keep going.

Let me know when you find another definition for authoritarianism.

 

[Cope]

Is she still there, or did she finally cave and take the escort?

 

[Napoleon]

Remember when they were all mad because they were asked to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic

I remember Democrats being mad that some people didn’t wear masks and getting busted violating their own shutdown orders.

 

[TamleeB]

How un-American

Nah….I do hope she has sweet dreams. Not sure how that is un-American, but do keep up your silliness.