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Paxton asks Illinois court to enforce Texas arrest warrants against state House Democrats
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is asking an Illinois court to enforce arrest warrants against Democrats who fled to the Prairie State over GOP efforts to redraw the Texas's congressional maps. On Monday, the Texas House approved arrest warrants for Democratic state lawmakers that state troopers can locate. However, those warrants are only enforceable within Texas. Paxton's petition to Illinois's Eighth Judicial Circuit Court asks for the 'enforcement of the rule of law in Illinois, the assistance of Illinois law enforcement officials, and this Court's assistance, to lawfully return to Texas the Respondent legislators who fled to Illinois to evade their duties to participate in the ongoing Special Session of the Texas Legislature.' The Democrats fled the state Sunday to deny the GOP a legislative quorum in an effort to prevent the redrawing of Texas's congressional maps. President Trump is aiming to pick up five seats there ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Paxton's request comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said earlier Thursday that the FBI is 'tracking down' Democratic state lawmakers who fled. 'Texas DPS and the FBI are tracking down the derelict Democrats. They will be taken directly to the Texas Capitol,' Abbott wrote on the social platform X. 'Those who received benefits for skipping a vote face removal from office and potential bribery charges,' he continued. 'In Texas, there are consequences for your actions.' Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) also on Thursday said the FBI had approved his request for them to help law enforcement agencies track down the Democrats. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Sunday that his state would protect Texas Democrats who fled to his state. 'They're here in Illinois. We're going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them and make sure that — 'cause we know they're doing the right thing, we know that they're following the law,' Pritzker told reporters at a press conference Sunday night held alongside the Texas state lawmakers. 'It's Ken Paxton who doesn't follow the law. It's the leaders of Texas who are attempting not to follow the law,' he continued, calling out Texas's Republican attorney general by name. 'They're the ones that need to be held accountable.'
Buzz Feed
2 hours ago
- Buzz Feed
Trump Fires Back At JD Vance Epstein Strategy Question
President Donald Trump went off after being questioned over reports that he was set to have a strategy meeting with his administration officials to discuss the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Multiple reports on Wednesday signaled that the meeting would take place at Vice President JD Vance's residence to discuss whether to release the transcript from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's interview last month with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. CNN was the first to report. The meeting was said to include Trump, Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Blanche. Reporters asked Trump on Wednesday about the meeting that was reportedly set to occur that evening, but the POTUS wasn't having it. 'I don't know, I could ask you that question,' Trump fired back before looking at Vance. 'I don't know of it, but I think, here's the man right here.' Vance then took a swipe at the credibility of those reports. 'I saw it reported today, and it's completely fake news. We're not meeting to talk about the Epstein situation, and I think the reporter who reported it needs to get better sources,' Vance alleged. Declaring the 'whole thing is a hoax,' Trump went on to place the blame on the Democrats. 'It's put out by the Democrats because we've had the most successful six months in the history of our country, and that's just a way of trying to divert attention to something that's total bullshit. OK?' Trump added. The meeting was reportedly canceled, according to Reuters. The White House and the FBI didn't immediately respond to HuffPost's request for comment. The POTUS also claimed earlier this week that he wasn't briefed on the decision to move Maxwell from a federal prison in Florida to a federal prison in Texas. 'I didn't know about it at all,' Trump said. 'It's not a very uncommon thing.' Maxwell, a longtime accomplice to the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Epstein, was moved to Texas while serving her 20-year prison sentence due to her legal team appealing her case to the Supreme Court. Earlier this week, Vance's office doubled down on denying the reports. 'The CNN story is pure fiction. There was never a supposed meeting scheduled at the Vice President's residence to discuss Epstein strategy,' Vance's communications director William Martin said. Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images Trump has repeatedly snapped at the media in recent weeks for questioning him about the Epstein files. Earlier this month, he called out his 'past' supporters who believe in the Democratic 'bullshit' a bunch of 'weaklings' in a heated Truth Social post.
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Yahoo
Trump administration ousts top FBI official who resisted purge of Jan. 6 agents
A top FBI official who resisted President Donald Trump's purge of agents who participated in investigations of the Jan. 6 attack has reportedly been ousted. Brian Driscoll, a veteran agent who served as acting director of the FBI in the first weeks of the Trump administration, has been forced out of the bureau with Friday being his last day on the job, two people familiar with the situation told the Associated Press. Driscoll made headlines in late January when he resisted demands from the incoming Trump administration for information about FBI agents who participated in investigations into the 2021 attack on the Capitol by thousands of Trump supporters. Emil Bove, Trump's onetime personal lawyer who was then serving as a senior Justice Department official, wrote a memo at the time accusing Driscoll and other top FBI officials of 'insubordination.' The FBI eventually relented and provided personnel details about several thousand employees, albeit identifying them by unique employee numbers rather than by their names. It wasn't immediately clear why Driscoll was ousted now and if the firing is part of a larger purge. Spokespeople for the FBI and director Kash Patel declined to comment. Driscoll, a veteran agent who has worked on international counterterrorism investigations in New York and once led the bureau's Hostage Rescue Team, was named acting director in January after Christopher Wray quit at Trump's behest and while Patel's controversial nomination was pending. After Patel was confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, Driscoll was reassigned to lead an FBI division that deploys manpower and resources to crisis situations. The news comes amid a broader personnel purge that has unfolded over the last several months under the leadership of Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, both MAGA loyalists. Several senior officials including top agents in charge of field offices have been pushed out of their jobs, and some agents have been subjected to polygraph exams, moves that have roiled the nation's premier law-enforcement agency. Another senior agent, Walter Giardina, who helped probe a case that sent the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro to prison, has also been ousted, the New York Times reported. In April, the bureau reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. Agents who participated in probes of the bloody January 6 riot, which led to hundreds of successful prosecutions, and the investigations of Trump himself are looked upon with suspicion by MAGA loyalists, even though the agents were following orders from the Justice Department. Trump pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6 attackers, including those convicted of violently attacking police officers and a handful of white nationalist extremists who planned and led the attack, which was aimed at preventing Congress from certifying former President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory over Trump. _____
