Claims by Texas Republicans that the FBI is getting involved in efforts to track down and possibly detain Democratic state lawmakers who fled Texas to stop a partisan redistricting effort is getting strong pushback from Democrats in Congress.

Democratic lawmakers are investigating how involved the FBI is in the Texas redistricting battle, but lawmakers who have weighed in on the matter say FBI intervention would be an egregious politicization of the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

Claims that FBI Director Kash Patel is helping to track down state-level Texas Democrats come after Senate Democrats received information that the Justice Department ordered 1,000 FBI personnel to come through 100,000 Jeffrey Epstein-related documents in March to flag mentions of President Trump.

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