What's to allege?
She is being illegally confined. Live on video. Out in the open.
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It's legal, is the thing. They passed a law years ago, the last time the opposition tried the denying quorum trick. Maybe not constitutional, but no one bothered to get it in front of a judge.
Now is as good a time as any
Not true. Literally would have been better prior to the start of the collapse.
The best time was earlier, the 2nd best time is now.
Yeah but time machines don't exist so...
Yup
When do you want shade from a tree
When do the good guys with guns show up?
I have bad news about Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy...
Now is the time that people with guns out number the police and GOP and tell them to kick rocks or they can “Get down!” With us good ole boys.
They acknowledged that Texas law allows lawmakers who are absent from the Capitol to face civil arrest, but they say state officials have no legal right to detain legislators who are already present at the Capitol to ensure they don't leave.
Very normal country ya got there.
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So why the fuck did they go back, again?
Because if they stay gone long enough, their position can be declared abandoned and they can legally be replaced
It’s the same issue that plagues every person that is soberly seeing the collapse of American democracy. We all want to take a stand but at the end of the day these Texas Dems need to get back home for family, be in their districts with their constituents, and somehow go on with life. Even though everything is on the line it’s still not enough to loose yet for people, including the larger Texas populace.
I can 100% guarantee I am absolutely not soberly seeing this.
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So that means other states can just start randomly detaining members of their government, I guess? What a clusterfuck.
So what I'm hearing is, there are a bunch of police who can, at the will of people who don't like them, be 'forcibly' moved into certain areas.
Let them escort you. Get the political credit of an assassination attempt and get rid of some actual factual totally not anything but government bootlickers.
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