{"id":71348,"date":"2025-08-12T02:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71348"},"modified":"2025-08-12T02:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:09:12","slug":"fbi-joins-hunt-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71348","title":{"rendered":"FBI Joins Hunt for"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-365.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-365.png 654w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-365-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Democrats Flee Texas to Block Voting Map Vote<\/strong><br>Over 50 Texas Democrats left the state to prevent a vote on redistricting that could give Republicans five more House seats. They aimed to \u201cfreeze all legislative activity during the special session,\u201d traveling mostly to Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Republicans Push for Quorum and FBI Help<\/strong><br>Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows demanded missing Democrats return by suspending their paychecks until a quorum is restored. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said, \u201cDirector Kash Patel has approved my request for the FBI to assist state and local law enforcement in locating runaway Texas House Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legal and Political Controversy<\/strong><br>Experts warn federal involvement may cause a constitutional crisis. Joshua Blank said, \u201cThere\u2019s a political side to this and there\u2019s a legal side.\u201d Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called it \u201ca purely state issue,\u201d dismissing the FBI\u2019s role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Orders to Return or Face Arrest<\/strong><br>Governor Greg Abbott ordered Democrats back by Monday or face arrest and removal from office. Burrows signed civil arrest warrants, and the Texas Rangers are investigating potential bribery charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71173\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Flee Texas to Block Voting Map VoteOver 50 Texas Democrats left the state to prevent a vote on redistricting that could give Republicans five more House&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71350,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71348\/revisions\/71350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}