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.

New York’s constitution now places a bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission in charge of drawing districts for the U.S. House as well as the state Assembly and Senate. Legislators take over if the panel deadlocks, and all lines are subject to constitutional language prohibiting gerrymandering that Hochul said she would consider changing.