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.
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?