Overview

• Over 50 Democratic state legislators remain outside Texas to deny the two-thirds quorum needed to pass a mid-cycle congressional map rewrite
• Texas Republicans have issued civil warrants authorizing the state police to compel absent lawmakers home, but those warrants carry no force beyond Texas borders
• Senator John Cornyn asserted that FBI Director Kash Patel would assist Texas law enforcement, yet the FBI has declined to confirm or deny any involvement
• Representatives Jamie Raskin, Robert Garcia, Greg Casar, and Jasmine Crockett spearheaded a formal inquiry urging Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director Patel to justify any federal assistance and disclose use of taxpayer-funded resources
• Constitutional law experts warn that any FBI engagement in this purely state legislative dispute would exceed the bureau’s federal-crime jurisdiction and breach its domestic-operations guidelines