Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to call a series of rolling special legislative sessions to push the Trump administration's efforts to redraw voting district boundaries in the state,

The newspaper criticized Abbott for his response to Democratic lawmakers fleeing the state in protest of the legislature's push for GOP-backed redistricting maps.

But as the conflict moved into another week, Governor Greg Abbott signaled that he would use the power of his office to keep the redistricting fight going for as long as needed. In an interview with NBC News,