Texas state Rep. Ann Johnson, one of the Democrats who fled the state for Illinois, told CNN’s Pamela Brown that she viewed the quorum break as a “last tool” available to her and her colleagues to protest the Republican-backed redistricting effort.

Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell "vigorously opposes disclosure of the grand jury materials" from her sex trafficking case, her attorney said. In response to a Department of Justice request to unseal the grand jury materials,