F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats
It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.
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Comments43It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.
Literally no charges can be made. Fuck this bullshit. Good luck getting a judge to sign off on that.
He's appointed what, 1/4 of the currently sitting judges? It's not gonna be difficult to find one loyal to him.
Exactly this. It's been their plan, all along.
Judges can't just make X charges make Z sense. They still have to justify their actions to not get sued and have it immediately reversed by a higher court, in which case it still doesn't matter, because it still has to make legal sense.
Because a higher court stacked with Republicans would favor the Democrats?
Do you not read the news? Why are you thinking all the courts are stacked with Republican aligned assclowns, and follow up question: why has Trump been losing 90% of court cases of its Republican simos all the way down?
Your understanding of the court system is flawed and wrong.
Fair point. Counter point, they're ignoring court orders when they feel like it.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-federal-court-ruling-ignore-b2792939.html
They control the supreme Court. No court higher then that.
Exactly lol, it will be FBI vs govt security detail. They ain't apprehending shit.
They'll stand around a bicker about who has jurisdiction and it will not be the FBI.
... state (and federal) reps don't get a security detail unless there's a present threat. They're not assigned them by default at all. These folks are wholly on their own.
There is literally currently a present threat.
They are not on their own.
There isn't, at least not one that would merit being assigned a security detail. In this context, that's what I'm referring to as being 'on their own', just to be clear. Additionally a state security detail would be directed by either the general assembly or governor of texas, so they'd be a threat to these people even if they'd been assigned initially (and that's ignoring the extremely complex issue of jurisdiction outside of the state they're assigned in, which unless federally assigned they generally do not have and is the reason the FPS exists in the first place).
And, aside from all that, why on earth would the texas state police suddenly side with a bunch of dems? They're notorious psychos.
Like this administration listens to judges who say things they don't want to hear.
Gotta slow boil this stuff. Eventually he'll get ICE to round them up.
They are his Gestapo, after all.
What authority would/does the FBI have to make arrests?
"We have the authority because Trump says we do. His Word is the One True Word and all that matters."
"Our daddy issues 'father',
who art in the white house,
hallowed be they name on every fucking building you can find.
Your kingdom has come,
your 3 yo will be done,
on earth as it is in your fantasies.
Give us today your daily tantrum,
and forgive us our sins, but don't forgive the immigrants.
And lead us not into temptation,
for those trans and gay websites are truly hot.
For yours is our political loyalty so please don't hurt me.
MAGA Allwhitemen"
Not all white men. Too many of us. But there are still many of us who vehemently don't want to be tarted with that shit brush.
True, true. I'm just repeating their words, not declaring truth.
Wrong question.
Who will stop them?
The Democratic governors have stated they will exert their power to protect them.
They're going to try to say donations to cover their fines are bribes.
There was a survey done to gauge support and legality for the matter and there was 100% support and it was found to be 100% legal. Sample size was 1, of course. But you’ll have to ask the one of the great new statistics hires if that’s a representative sample size.
There are no checks and balances to stop this.
Except for the people.
That implies hoping that someone else will act.
And the Lorax's advocacy of collective action doesn't? Hop off your high horse.
Oh yeah nice catch, because the real quote is: “Unless someone besides you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
Problem is that we've all been taught for forty years that every problem is an individual problem, actually, and that nobody needs solidarity.
We've digested all the communal systems in this country and now instead of "we the people" it's all about "me the person".
tUrN oFf ThE wAtEr wHiLe YoU bRuSh YoUr TeEtH
-Exxon et al while I was growing up, difference being you're still falling for it
The people already failed.
Wasn't Texas a 'states rights' state? I'm sure sending armed people into other states would be an infringement of that state's rights. You should follow the proper channels and ask that state to return those people. Remember: "No" is a complete sentence.
The "state's rights" states have ALWAYS been "our state's rights and not yours": "our rights to own slaves" and "our rights to come into your state and find drag our runaway slaves back to our state". This is literally the Fugitive Slave Act, but the "Fugitive Legislator Act": we're going to send our people into your state to arrest them and drag them back.
What about Texans right to infringe on other people's rights?
Plus, you can't let other states infringe on your rights, so best be infringing on them, first.
If they do this we'll be in a whole new territory of fucked. Returning political opponents to pass a political bill to subvert the fairness of an election for the presidents agenda.
Didn’t republicans do the same shit? Not that it’s justified either way, but I seem to remember arrest threats against the republicans and at the time thought it was some shitweasel behavior by them to dodge some stuff. I feel more sympathetic to us being shitweasels against facism though.
Yes, yes they did. But ya know... 'rules for thee but not for me'.
Democrats do it from time to time too apparently. It's just a tactic in our system that isn't used often.
Sounds very reminiscent of Wisconsin circa 2011.
Is it illegal to travel, now?
"Great, another politically toxic task thrown in my lap"