The ranking Democratic members of two key House committees have written a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to express “great concern about the abuse of federal public safety resources” in response to reports that the FBI is helping Texas law enforcement track down Democrats who fled Texas to stop a partisan redistricting effort.

The Democrats, led by Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Jamie Raskin (Md.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, raised alarm over reports that the “FBI is diverting federal law enforcement away from fighting terrorism, drug trafficking and other federal crimes to instead harass and target Texans’ duly elected representatives.”

They wrote that the reports “raise urgent questions about the legal basis, scale, and appropriateness of federal law enforcement involved in a state-level........

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