FBI will help track down Texas Democrats who left state, Sen. John Cornyn says
FBI Director Kash Patel, to call You. John Cornyn said on Thursday for Texas Democratic MPs who left the state to protest the new congress maps.
Texas Republicans Bring the democrats back Therefore, there are enough deputies for a core, which will allow them to vote. New Congress Maps The GOP in the state is likely to increase the advantage. Texas requires two-thirds of the house to be present for a nucleus of 100 of the 150 representatives of 150 representatives.
It is not clear what the legislators may have broken the FBI. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called on civilian arrest and said he had ordered him to go back to the Texas Public Security Department. However, Texas DPS has no jurisdiction outside the state.
Abbott and Cornyn raised allegations The breakdown of the deputies, former Texas representative Beto O’Rourke is financed by donations from various groups, including PAC and other democratic groups. In addition to travel costs, each democrat faces a fine of $ 500 per day.
John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas in Washington, DC on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, is a Republican from Texas in DC. / Credit: Allison Robbert / Bloomberg Getty Images
“I would like to thank President Trump and Director Patel for supporting my call to escape these so -called MPs responsible for escaping from Texas and acted quickly,” Cornyn said. He said. “We cannot allow this bandit legislators to avoid constitutional responsibilities.”
On the other hand, one of the deputies who left the state, the Texas representative John Bucy called the FBI’s participation as “the authoritarian extreme access we condemned in other countries”.
Last month, Abbott called a special 30 -day session with 18 agenda items, including the start of the red distribution of the middle decade, which was rarely ordered by President Trump. There are 38 representatives of Texas in Congress, 25 Republican and 13 Democrats. Mr. Trump asked the Texas Republicans to redraw the congress map to offer up to five more seats for GOP.
“We have five more seats,” Mr. Trump said Tuesday.
This did not leave the state to prevent a sufficient number, and for the first time, for the first time to protest this tactic to protest a re -distorting.
“A governor is not to be a constitutional participant when a constitutional task conspiracy for RAM with a racist Gerrymander map with a racist Gerrymander map. He said.
At the beginning of this week, Abbot said that he would ask a judge to remove democratic deputies to evacuate their offices and refer to a non -binding view by Texas Chief Public Prosecutor Ken Paxton. On Tuesday, Abbott filed a lawsuit with Abbott’s Supreme Court of Texas, full of his own appointments. Remove Wu from the office If he didn’t come back until Thursday. Abbott described WU as the “Zile Girl” of his proficiency break.
Meanwhile, Paxton said it was on Wednesday Start an investigation about O’Rourke’s Pac To finance non -state travel and fines. In a statement to CBS Texas, O’Rourke’s organization ” I was impressed for bribery Five congresses are chasing those who try to stop the stealing. “
Paxton is currently challenging Cornyn in the GOP primary for the Senate seat. Colin Allred has already started an offer to run with O’Rourke and the state as a democrat Representative James Talarico – One of the democrats fleeing the state – accepted other possible contestants.
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