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.
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.