It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.
It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.
… 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.
There is literally currently a present threat.
They are not on their own.
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.