Pritzker calls FBI ‘unwelcome’ in Illinois in pursuit of Texas Democrats

JB Pritzker, the Illinois State Governor, said on Wednesday that the FBI would be “unwanted” to follow the legislators in Texas who fled to his mandate to stop the re -division of departments.

In an interview with “News Not noise with Jessica Yellin”, Pritzker argued that legislators in Texas did not break any federal law, and therefore, the FBI has no jurisdiction. Senator John Corn, R-TEXAS, did not agree to a letter to the FBI director Cash Patel earlier this week asking the office to help determine the location or arrest of “potential law stations” who fled Texas in a maneuver to avoid legislative responsibilities “in violation of the performance of his position.

“They are wonderful. There is no federally legal literal applies to this situation. Nothing,” Pretzker told the Bodkster on Wednesday. “They can say that they are sending the FBI. FBI’s agents may appear, I do not know, offered to. But the fact is that local law enforcement protects everyone in the state in Illinois. Legislators in the states here, legislators in Texas, can be arrested.”

JB Pritzker faces a map showing Elli -Gerrymandering

Pritzker ranked Corneen’s call as a political theater, noting that the Texas Pafeston Prosecutor is challenging his seat in the US Senate. The Illinois Governor also seized prominent strikes against President Donald Trump and Texas Greg Abbott.

“We are following the law,” said Pritzker. “But as you know, Donald Trump does not follow the law. In fact, he is a condemned criminal. In Texas, they also do not follow the law. They frustrate the constitution with the voting rights law and make threats that they cannot make. As a result of these quarrels, and the weight of Abbott too, this is everything about politics.”

ABBOTT held a special session to try to advance the plan to divide the circles in Congress, which can add five new seats to Republican wandering before the middle of next year.

Trump drives the Republican countries to open the process of re -dividing the circles in the middle of the circles to give the Republican Party a better opportunity to maintain control of the house in the 2026 external renewal elections. In Texas, more than 50 Democratic legislators from the state fled earlier this month to prevent the necessary quorum in the Texas house, which requires at least 100 members of the body that ranges between 150 members.

Administration of legislators in Texas is busy after a press conference at the headquarters of the Dubaj Democratic Province Party on August 3, 2025 in Carroll Straf, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Pritzker and its Democratic colleagues, the governor of California State Gavin New Zoom and the New York Governor Cathy Hochol, have given a haven for these Democrats in Texas, praising the network as a battle to save democracy. NEWSOM and Hochul pledged to “fight fire with fire.”

Meanwhile, the Republicans in Texas voted to issue civil detention orders and daily fines of $ 500 for Democratic colleagues who abandoned their duties.

Trump told correspondents on Tuesday that the FBI “may have to” intervene. “

President Donald Trump speaks to correspondents after he signed an executive order during a ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office building on August 5, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

In a telephone interview on “The Squawk Box” from CNBC on Tuesday, Trump argued that democratic countries, including Massachusetts, California, Illinois, have already prompted the re -division of circles to benefit from their party, so the Republicans will do the same.

“In Illinois, where you may have stupid among all conservatives, Illinois. This man really sends – I mean that the work is flowing outside his mandate. It is terrible. It is a terrible thing that Pritzker does.” But in Illinois, what happened is terrible what they do – I noticed that they go to Illinois for safety. But that’s all he does. ”

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The president continued: “The President continued” in California. “” We must have many other seats in Congress in California. All this is gerrymander. We have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five seats. We have a really good ruler, and we have good people in Texas. She won Texas. I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you know. We are prepared with five other seats. ”