WASHINGTON - Sen. John Cornyn said FBI Director Kash Patel accepted his request for federal officers to work with Texas state law enforcement in tracking down the Democratic lawmakers who fled the Lone Star State to try to block Republicans’ redistricting efforts.
More than 50 Texas Democrats left their state on Aug. 3 in order to deny Republicans the quorum they need to move ahead with their plan to carry out an unusual mid-decade redistricting. The effort could give Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives up to five more seats in the 2026 midterms. The legislators fled to blue states, including Illinois, Massachusetts and New York.
House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, fired back on X.
“Shouldn’t the FBI be tracking down terrorists, drug traffickers and child predators? The Trump administration continues to weaponize law enforcement to target political adversaries. These extremists don’t give a damn about public safety. We will not be intimidated,” he wrote.
What federal laws were broken?
Refusing to help the GOP ensure the continued protection of pedophiles?
Not showing up for work apparently? Every FBI agent is a worthless moron who should suck start their service weapons
America: Can you just go ahead and release the files? This is beyond ridiculous.
FBI: Sorry, we’ve got Dems to hunt and local state matters to get involved in. Because we love small government and hate the deep state so much.
I’m mostly worried/concerned, but part of me is morbidly curious to see exactly how deep into the military toolbox they’re willing to go, and how they justify government overreach when they’re the ones doing it.
Facial recognition, license plate scanning, or just plain old fashioned cell phone tracking like they used for Comey? Will they bust out that new x-ray vision through the wall surveillance tech to hunt down Dems for doing the same thing Republicans have done in the past?
How will they explain the cost to tax payers? The old that was then, this is now? (I know they won’t bother to acknowledge how much this will cost in manpower, but it’s fun to pretend). Would they just blame it on the Dems for making them hunt them down?
I’m most curious to see what kind of showdown there is when the feds show up in Chicago to take these people into custody.
I mean, we know what hotel they’re staying at.
it’s not like finding them is all that hard. and their whackadoodle supporters know too; and we know that because one of them called in a fucking bomb threat to the hotel.
So what you’re saying is that Kash Patel now has no choice but to pull out all the stops and perform the most dramatic reenactment of the spy kids movie in order to serve his country?
no. I’m saying if the FBI needs to expend more than a few hours skiptracing, they absolutely suck at their jobs.
And I’m only giving them a few hours because it takes time for the orders to percolate and emails to be responded to.
Shouldn’t the FBI be tracking down terrorists, drug traffickers and child predators?
Well I mean, they already know where to find the worst child predators, they’ve been scrubbing their names from the Epstein files for months now.
Exactly, who do you think is most at risk if those district lines don’t get redrawn.
When people say they can’t do this because of the Constitution I’m always reminded of the part in A Game of Thrones, book and show. Specifically the part where Cersei rips up the King’s decree that proclaimed Ned the Protector of the Realm and says "Is this meant to be your shield, my lord? A piece of paper?”
In the case of the GOP though, claiming the constitution as a shield while simultaneously ignoring it and violating it is their whole schtick.
The new strategy seems to be to just edit out the parts of the paper you don’t like, and pretend it was an accident. They still need to be able to just fucking constantly play the victim, and claim anything that gives them hurt fee fees is the only real violation of the most sacred piece of paper (that they’re somehow allowed to edit?) bc only they know what the real intentions of the forefathers were when they wrote it special for their little precious snowflake asses.
There was a guy in my college dorm that desperately wanted to go work for the FBI. He was a douche bag and everybody hated him.
If he ever joined the FBI, I bet he’d be totally behind this.
It seems like there is possibly still some resistance within the FBI bc not that long ago Kash Patel was apparently hooking people up to lie detector tests to see who was talking trash about him.
Idk how much he’s widdled down any remaining resistance since then, but I was honestly more worried they were going to send ICE agents after them (which I guess they still might)?
I’m not sure how it works if they’re somewhere like Chicago, does he rely on Chicago branch of the FBI to bring them in or does he have his own FBI people go to Chicago to do it?
Texas is a shithole.
Stop contributing to its economy.
