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no_hypocrisy

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3. To be *legally* arrested, you have to have broken an existing criminal statute.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 05:01 AM
Aug 5

(Or at least suspected of such violation). You are accused of doing "something bad" to the public or an individual.

Yet, Governor Greg Abbott has issued civil arrest warrants in order to attempt to compulsorily return Democrats who fled the jurisdiction of the State of Texas. (The warrants, however, have no power outside state lines and it's unclear to what extent, if at all, Texas law enforcement may and could coordinate with their counterparts in the relevant states. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/showdown-texas-abbott-threatens-democrats-fled-protest-redistricting/story?id=124343408)

He's treating Democrats like women leaving the state to attain an abortion.

And I have some questions:

1. How is Greg Abbott going to find these wayward Democrats? A tip from the Red Roof Inn in Schenectady, NY?
2. Why bother with the search? All he has to do is wait and apply fines.
3. Back to waiting . . . . Can't Abbott try to replace the Democrats with Republicans and see if the courts allow him to do that.
4. It's mock outrage. Haven't Texan legislators done this before? https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/texas-quorum-breaks-history/

As an aside, isn't hypocritical to issue warrants for Texan Democrats who chose not to participate in anti-democratic shenanigans (which holds up "legislation" in government) while January Sixers who stormed the Federal Capitol to halt legitimate duties of certifying the presidential electoral vote counting are deemed protestors and were en masse pardoned by TSF?

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