Texas House sergeant-at-arms delivers 52 civil arrest warrants to Democrats

First he took the elevator to the fourth floor. The first stop was the office of Representative Hubert Vo, a Houston Democrat. After knocking but receiving no answer, he then knelt to slide the warrant under the door. It was the same story at the nearby office of Representative Yvonne Davis, a Dallas Democrat.

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One floor down, the door was open at the office of Representative Senfronia Thompson, a member of the House for nearly half a century. But the Houston representative wasn’t there, and a senior staff member said she didn’t know where she was.

Mr. Black left the warrant with the aide and continued his floor-by-floor march through the Capitol. “As long as it takes,” he said when asked for an expected timetable for delivering the warrants.

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