U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said the FBI agreed to help track down Texas lawmakers who left the state in a bid to block a new congressional map rigged to favor Republicans, sparking fears of a potential standoff between law enforcement or even illegal arrests.
unfounded. the police are on the side of authority, fascist or not.
there are competing authorities.
can the democrats really be said to be competing with the GOP?
even chuds in other states don’t like texas so yeah i think this could be something of a competition if it went beyond theater
I really think we might be starting to see that: launching DOJ investigations against Obama, Texas trying to arrest Democrats, California doing its own redistricting, etc etc. This looks like a serious split in the bipartisan consensus.
Texas tries to arrest democrats every time they flee quorum, that isn’t really new. If the FBI actually does something, that would be new.
Did that happen in 2003? I don’t remember and I can’t find anything.
Search engines are really shitty these days, particularly when trying to find anything about arrests related to texas government. I think they did it in '01, '15, and back in the 1940s as well.
I’m seeing arrest warrants when I use a custom date range, but FBI involvement seems new.
Yes. Yes, FBI making statements is new. FBI involvement hasn’t happened yet.
one is higher than the other and the authorities of the lower one will yield the higher out of fealty to authority.
this is between the states, feds stepping in on one side is just strong-arming the one state over the other, this is different from the feds using their authority independently.
true
nevertheless, the feds have a perceived supreme authority over the state, so the members of whatever police force that the state might try to employ to defend its sovereignty will bow to the feds.
maybe. but a lot of folks hate texas
it doesn’t matter if they hate texas; it only matter that they obey whatever they believe that the law is.
in this case it is an attempt to make texan law supercede their local laws.
true.
what matters is that it will be committed by a federal agency; not a texan one.