In an extraordinary move brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, dozens of Texas House Democrats aim to deny a quorum as the GOP is set to draw new maps.

The roughly 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who had met with the Texas caucus late last month and has directed staff to provide logistical support for their stay. A news conference with the governor and Texas Democrats is expected later Sunday.

Last week, Texas Republicans released a proposed new congressional map that would give the GOP a path to pick up five seats in next year’s midterm elections. It followed President Donald Trump’s public pressure for a new map in the state as he works to retain a majority in Congress in what historically is a difficult year for the party holding the White House.

The proposed map would shift district lines in ways that would target current Democratic members of Congress in and around Austin, Dallas and Houston, as well as two already endangered Democrats representing south Texas districts that Trump carried last year.

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    You are seeing them as a monolith they aren’t, they may be broadly aligned but if some Texas ranger started stomping around SoCal he is going to have the sheriff and whatever PD up his ass. I am under no illusion about the general corruption of such groups but they are as I said very territorial and will fight over jurisdiction. Most cops are more than willing to sit on their assess and do nothing, there’s a reason they all rush to check out some teenagers drawing knives and it’s because they have nothing better to do.

    They gain NOTHING from helping out outside authorities unless the state is enabling them, if a protest breaks our yes they’ll be jackboots. But if alls quiet on the western front then they’ll sit on their assess and do nothing or watch porn in their squad car because that’s what my local cops do for some reason.

    Also when I say state I don’t mean the feds, I’m pretty sure my local deputies would jump at the idea of shooting a fed.

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      If they weren’t prepared to be the boot for the oligarchy, they wouldn’t work in law enforcement in the first place.

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        The flaw in your assumption is that the oligarchy is actually united. Depending on the region you may very well see an area dominated by a handful of old money families who will call in favors with the good old boys and have them cause trouble. Factionalism is rife amongst the rich the only reason it seems like they have any amount of unity is because a handful of ultra oligarchs such as Thiel, Musk, and Zuckerberg dominate the media.

        The police often know their place in such order or at least the ones at the top do. This is why you can get sheriffs departments break rank with town and city PD on occasion because they answer to different powers be they legitimate IE the state or county cheque makers of illegitimate such as the broadly rich in LA vs the old families of a rural Eastern Californian county.