NEW: The FBI has agreed to help chase down quorum-breaking Texas Democrats. The Democrats departed the state in an attempt to thwart the Texas Legislature’s passage of a newly redrawn congressional map that would grant the GOP five more favorable districts ahead of the 2026 midterms.
I would bet that Texas has somewhere a law making it illegal to disrupt governmental proceedings. This is similar to the law used against the Jan 6 rioters and/or patriots. This would give the FBI the basis for arresting democratic Texas legislators when found and then extraditing them back to Texas
Florida moves toward joining the national redistricting push.
DeSantis did that before the last election.
They are absolutely disgusting.
Come on Washington, Oregon, California, New York and all blue states and redistrict.
So in other words AMERICA is NOT a fair, free or honest country. No election EVER again in this country will ever again can be consider legitimate.
FBI wastes taxpayer money on stupidity, more Epstein diversion
More bullshit. They already know where they are. Texas state troopers can't arrest Texas House representatives outside the state. Bringing in the FBI is a sketchy attempt to circumvent the law. If the FBI does start arresting TX democratic reps, we'll have a constitutional crisis on our hands.
Smells like kidnapping.
Wow. Seems they have all stopped pretending there is a level playing field.
They claim fist they must finish removing trump and trump jr from Epstein lists
FBI is becoming a political police. Cool. FBI = NKVD. Donny achieved impossible in 7 months.
Will this scenario be part of any forthcoming episode on CBS TV’s FBI ?
I think it’s rich for republicans to be appalled after all the BS they pulled since 2016.
The FBI is within their rights to find people. Any action past that is kidnapping. The Texas dems should dare the Gestapo to try it.
Politicization of DOJ and FBI is now complete.
They can’t.
🤡
Fascist Thuggery...
Hunt them down and do what, exactly? They haven't broken any federal laws. Just the dictator doing what a dictator does - use the government to punish his enemies.
Exactly. Why is a federal agency that is supposed to be looking for actual criminals being used for political purposes? Trump is imitating El Salvador’s Bukele.
What law have the broken? What crime have they committed? What threat do they pose?
If the Republicans truly want votes and related representation based on "there's more of us than them", let's open this up to strike down the Electoral College idiocy, where the "more of us than them" argument provides a true, accurate, complete, and correct barometer of the will of the people.
WTF does the FBI have to do with a state legislature matter?!
The president claims that he's "entitled" to five more seats because he won the state by a wide margin. (The largest since GWB— NOT in history.) The Texas GOP already holds twice as many US House seats as Texas Democrats yet no one has ever carried the state by a two to one margin. I call BS.
I thought people were mad that candidates were selected behind the scenes with little or no input by voters. This goes way beyond that. Not only are the powers selecting on who’s been bought or sold by high tech bros, now they redistrict your vote out of existence.
On what authority?
They have NO legal standing to do this
Because they have nothing better to do. 😡
Kash Patel's FBI.
Tbey have no authority in a state matter. The FBI cannot touch any of those Texas reps. If they do, each Texas tep has a cause of action against each FBI member that touched them. Same applies to ICE/Homeland Security. Tbey have zero jurisdiction in state matters.
End freemasonry in police. Their oaths are the linchpin of corruption in our society
#RepugnantRepublicans
Authoritarianism.
Quorum-breaking is legal in the state, which lawmakers and experts have highlighted. So on what grounds have the FBI to arrest anybody? Just because cosplaying FBI Director Patel says do it, could this see field agents refusing to act illegally?
Unbelievable. There is no applicable federal law. So frightening that all of Justice is just a political tool for Trump.
Texas lawmakers say that they’re entitled to more congressional seats because there’s more of them than everybody else in the state and that reflects Texas real majority and real people. Let’s redistrict every single blue state to show the will of the nation!
Blue states have already gerrymandered to the nth degree. There is nothing left to gain. California gerrymandered an enormous blue advantage and then passed laws to restrict further gerrymandering. Hypocrisy on steroids 😂
You are wrong, but it’s pointless providing you with facts, so I won’t.
No, please do. I’ll look at your facts with an open mind. Gerrymandering has and is legally done by both parties. Prove me wrong.
That's not what you said. You said, "Blue states have already gerrymandered to the nth degree. There is nothing left to gain. California gerrymandered an enormous blue advantage and then passed laws to restrict further gerrymandering." Prove yourself right.
Redistricting is a constitutionally driven product of the 10 year census. Both parties do it legitimately favoring themselves. Problem is, after the dust settles you just can’t redraw the lines. Personally, I think it’s out of control, but we can’t vote where the outcome are pre-drawn.
Is this legal? What federal crime has been committed? Inquiring minds want to know.