Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the man he is vying to unseat in next year’s Republican primary, US Sen. John Cornyn, are both using the powers of their offices to try to pressure the Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to prevent a vote on a GOP-led redistricting plan.

An administration official told NBC News this week that there were no plans to use federal agents to arrest Texas lawmakers who left the state.

Texas Republicans have been trying to bring the state Democratic lawmakers back in order to vote on their redistricting plan.