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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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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Welcome to the Fascist States of America

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Now, in theory at least, do they even have the authority/jurisdiction/whatever to execute a state warrant, let alone "civil warrant"?

    Don't get me wrong, I don't think they'll respect the law. Just curious if anybody here has info...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is this the weird politic stunt they can do to postpone a law or something? A bit like talking for 36 hours or similar?

    I remember republicans doing it, IIRC, I'm not American.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, some state legislatures can't pass any law unless some fraction of their members are present. So the minority can block a law by leaving the state and refusing to show up.

    Given that the law in question is to gerrymander even more Democrats out of their seats, it makes sense to simply refuse to be in Texas

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This is a very serious gerrymander as well. The current house seats from texas are 65% GOP to 35% DNC. This would push them to 75% GOP and 25% DNC.

    Do you know how texas votes statewide? 56.1% GOP. Yea, texas is already gerrymandered to fuck, they just want to fuck it way, way more.

    Good on the dems to fight for actual representation.

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    [–] 90 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Literally no charges can be made. Fuck this bullshit. Good luck getting a judge to sign off on that.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    He's appointed what, 1/4 of the currently sitting judges? It's not gonna be difficult to find one loyal to him.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because a higher court stacked with Republicans would favor the Democrats?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ... 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is literally currently a present threat.

    They are not on their own.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    What authority would/does the FBI have to make arrests?

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "We have the authority because Trump says we do. His Word is the One True Word and all that matters."

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "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"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    There are no checks and balances to stop this.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    That implies hoping that someone else will act.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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".

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Sounds very reminiscent of Wisconsin circa 2011.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Is it illegal to travel, now?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    "Great, another politically toxic task thrown in my lap"

    • Some field agent, every day since 2016
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