Texas Republicans have voted to track down and arrest dozens of Democratic legislators who have fled the state to block passage of a partisan redistricting plan.

The vote passed by 85 to 6, following Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s threat of bribery charges against the absent Democrats.

After the vote, the governor ordered state troopers “to locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans”.

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    10 days ago

    There are checks built in. The fascists just control all of them.

    Multiple justices should not have been confirmed. At least one should absolutely, 1000% been impeached (by Congress), regardless of party. The justices should be checking the president. Respect for the rule of law should be putting a stop to most of this.

    We have voted for Team Fascists because we’ve decided team colors are more important than principles.

    Congrats. You’re gonna turn your 100 billion dollars into 300 billion dollars and it’ll be worth 600 billion rubles. All the numbers are bigger, just like you wanted. Good fucking work. Maybe you should have considered that 3 years ago 600 billion rubles were worth 8 billion dollars.

    You’ve played yourself (and the rest of us with you).

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      10 days ago

      There are checks built in. The fascists just control all of them.

      Which means they were never checks. Checks aren’t checks if they rely solely on good faith.