SMU political science professor Matthew Wilson explains the rarely enforced rules being applied during this second special session of the legislature.

Texas Rep. Nicole Collier protested GOP redistricting and DPS monitoring by spending a night at the state Capitol.

Democrat activists are protesting the confinement of Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier after the state representative spent Monday night in the Texas House chamber after refusing to submit to around-the-clock surveillance by the Department of Public Safety.