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.
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.