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A video call with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democratic leaders got a surprise interruption from Texas Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier this week.

Collier, in the middle of a Texas House debate over a redistricting bill being pushed by former President Donald Trump, unexpectedly left the private call Wednesday evening with Newsom and other Democrats after she was told it was a felony for her to be participating in the conference.

“It’s just outrageous. I have to give Rep. Collier some serious props, I mean, in the bathroom she has more dignity than Donald Trump in the Oval Office,” New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said during the video conference, which was obtained by Fox News Digital. “What they’re trying to do right there is silence an American leader, silence a Black woman, and that is outrageous.”

Collier joined Newsom, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin, and others on the video call while the Texas House was also in session, discussing and eventually voting on a redistricting bill that Democrats have argued violates federal voting rights protections.

“The map does not pass constitutional muster,” Collier said on the call during her remarks. “The map before us today breaks the Voting Rights Act. The map before us does not give our minority communities the power to elect the candidate of their choice.”

Texas Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier is asked to leave a secure bathroom in the Texas Capitol as she is participating in a virtual meeting on redistricting on March 23. (Getty Images)

“This bill will prevent Black and brown individuals from selecting the candidates of their choice because they’re cracking and packing these districts,” she added.

Collier, who was on camera, abruptly interrupted Martin roughly 30 minutes into the call as he was speaking to the group.

“I have to go,” Collier said. “Sorry, I have to leave. They said it’s a felony for me to do this.”

She added, “Apparently, I can’t be on the floor or in the bathroom,” before addressing someone not on camera. “You told me I was only allowed to be here in the bathroom.”

Addressing the call once more, she said, “No, hang on. Bye everybody. I’ve got to go.” She hung up.

Booker, who was on the call with Collier, seemed taken aback by her abrupt decision.

“This is outrageous,” Booker told the group on the call. “Let me tell you something, Rep. Collier in the bathroom has more dignity than Donald Trump in the Oval Office.”

Newsom nodded, and Booker continued, “What they’re trying to do right there is silence an American leader, silence a Black woman, and that is outrageous.”

Booker added that he believed the interaction was an attempt to silence a Black woman leader.

“What we just witnessed, them trying to shut her down and saying it’s illegal for her to be in the bathroom and on this call, this is the lengths that they’re going to in Texas,” he said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, left, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom face off as California announces a redistricting plan to counter Texas’s effort earlier this month. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/REX/Shutterstock)

Booker’s comments came as Democrats and Republicans in California and Texas engaged in a fierce redistricting battle.

Last month, dozens of Texas House Democrats left the state for nearly two weeks, in an attempt to block Republicans from securing a quorum and advancing the redistricting bill on the House floor. The move, which had Democrats sheltering at a hotel in Washington, D.C. for weeks, was considered a high-profile bid to draw attention to voting rights concerns. As the special session began, Gov. Greg Abbott and other GOP leaders in the state had already ordered the Democrats to be arrested and removed from office if they refused to return to the Capitol.

Democrats later returned to Austin but reported that the security situation at the Capitol had grown tense. Members said Texas Department of Public Safety troopers had been assigned to follow them around, sometimes guarding their offices or trailing them through hallways at the Capitol. Some of the lawmakers claimed they were even required to sign “permission slips” to leave the building under security measures the state had put in place to guard against another quorum break.

Under the new Texas bill, GOP leaders could add as many as five congressional seats in the state, according to Democrats, who argue it would cement a decade of GOP control over the Lone Star State. California Democrats, meanwhile, announced their plan, saying they were drafting a redistricting map that would erase as many as five Republican seats in California.

Working with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Newsom had unveiled a new California congressional map that would serve as a counterpoint to Republican gains in Texas, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital. The map was released on Friday.

“I think this is as clear a case of voter suppression and disenfranchisement as I have seen, and that’s coming from a civil rights attorney,” Collier told Fox News Digital this week, before the conference call. “The Republican leadership of the Texas House of Representatives is fighting hard to make it as difficult as possible for people of color to elect the candidate of their choice. This is a violent attack on communities of color.”

Booker and Newsom were just two of the many top Democrats on the call, including Democratic Governors Association Chair Roy Cooper, Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.