Ken Paxton acknowledged this complication in a podcast today. They'd have to file actions against each fleeing lawmakers and "every district would be different," he noted. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Until actual files are released or unsealed, these attempts and quelling the maga base are only going to serve to prolong the dissatisfaction. 4/4

This means that something as simple as a friend of a neighbor saying they heard them talk about the charged individual committing a crime can be enough for a grand jury to find probable cause. They're a rubber stamp. 3/?

The evidence used in Grand Juries can span from simple hearsay to inadmissible evidence, and the one being charged has no recourse against what is said. They're a rubber stamp and only need to meet the burden of probable cause for a crime. 2/?

Grand Jury transcripts are among the hardest unseal requests to approve. Judges almost never unseal these transcripts because the Grand Jury is meant to be a private affair. It's how you obtain charges to press upon individuals. 1/?

Both routes are plausible, and the first route would be enacted after the august recess if they miss the deadline

Route 2:

The first appropriations act is now married with a binding request for confidential information, which, assumedly, will be made public by congress once recieved. This bill is needed to fund the government. Either gop guts the ammendment with another one or they pass it

Route 1:

If the house adjourns tonight, and convenes tomorrow, ro khanna and massie will be able to force a vote on their epstein bill. On thursday next week

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McGuire also proffers a CAST report, which he says tracks Abrego's phone during the relevant period. Says it does nowhere near St. Louis, which is where Abrego said he was coming from. Corroborates the breadth of conspiracy and that defendant lied where he was coming from to trooper