Former attorney general says FBI can't return Texas lawmakers who fled state
Source: The Hill
08/10/25 3:05 PM ET
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday the FBI does not have jurisdiction to return Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled their state.
Texas lawmakers are digging in. You heard Governor Abbott there talking about the FBI, Senator Cornyn calling the FBI to help locate those Democratic lawmakers who fled the state. I wonder, do you think that the FBI has jurisdiction to intervene here and try to bring back those Democrats who are in other states? NBC Newss Kristen Welker asked on Meet the Press.
Short answer, no. I mean, youre asking the FBI to get involved, to find these legislators who are in the process of trying to defend democracy in Texas, Holder responded.
And theyre not hard to find, but the question after that is, Well, whats the federal jurisdiction? What federal statute has potentially been violated? Whats the basis for any federal government interaction? And I would say that there is none, he added.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5445399-eric-holder-fbi-does-not-have-jurisdiction-texas-lawmakers/

Irish_Dem
(73,702 posts)Those who refuse will be fired.
I think it is naive to state that Trump cannot do this or that.
Trump will do what he wants to do and no one will stop him.
chicoescuela
(2,263 posts)Im not sure what will
Irish_Dem
(73,702 posts)No one will toss him out.
chicoescuela
(2,263 posts)Grim Reaper is our best hope
Irish_Dem
(73,702 posts)Who will toss them out?
Not the traitor SC.
CBHagman
(17,337 posts)All occupants are temporary, and Trump's only been back there a few months. No one knows what the rest of his life will be like. He's unstable and unpopular, and he's unlikely to improve. He also has exploitable weaknesses.
Irish_Dem
(73,702 posts)The only reason he might leave is because he is lazy.
And it is all too much work for him.
And he has scammed the American taxpayer for as much as he can get away with.
But he could stay.
We have to face that strong possibility.
OldBaldy1701E
(8,885 posts)Only if we let him.
Irish_Dem
(73,702 posts)Congress?
Supreme Court.
Ha ha
OldBaldy1701E
(8,885 posts)They just hope that things hold together until this goes away so that they don't have to lose their position in our society.
We are way past that point if one really wants things to change.
BidenRocks
(2,091 posts)AIDS!
Attilatheblond
(7,065 posts)Midnight Writer
(24,599 posts)This Administration will do whatever it damn well pleases.
Who's gonna stop'em?
Irish_Dem
(73,702 posts)about what Trump can and cannot do.
I would be sitting pretty by now.
JustAnotherGen
(36,799 posts)People like you and me? We've been proven right.
They still don't believe we are in a dictatorship.
It's started. Sooner or later they will come after DU.
Irish_Dem
(73,702 posts)Some of us have predicted that as well.
JustAnotherGen
(36,799 posts)Questioning the motives of anyone who tells us not to worry.
Irish_Dem
(73,702 posts)No one can be that dumb.
They are lying.
KPN
(16,896 posts)leadership. Holder only thinks he is on planet Earth. He obviously is not. It is one thing to say that there is no statute for the FBI doing so, but its quite another to say the FBI cant do it under Trump and Patel, this SCOTUS, etc.
Geesh!
JustAnotherGen
(36,799 posts)He's a former AG who reported into us.
We are the leaders. We need our Government to fear us. These fascists flip the bird at us every single day.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,565 posts)What does the current AG say?