Texas Democrats drong back on the Republican attempt to rewrite the state's congress map by leaving the state on Sunday to prevent a quorum to prevent the measure in the Texas house.
The redistribution, if assumed, could possibly eliminate five democratic American house chairs prior to the interim elections of 2026, while Republicans hope to hold their slender house majority.
States usually rearrange the boundaries of the congress district once every 10 years after the release of new population data from the census of the United States. A revision of the map of the map would be an extraordinary step that claims Democrats is a nude partisan attempt that is aimed at strengthening the prospects of the Republicans to maintain control of the house in 2026.
Two -thirds of the Staatshuis is required to reach a quorum in Texas. Democrats in the legislative power tried the same step in 2021 to block a bill that would have imposed new ballot restrictions. After that effort, new rules for the Texas house were introduced to pay members of $ 500 a day if a member is absent, including “with the aim of hindering the action of the house.”
Republicans from Texas claim that the relocation is necessary about the concern that the current maps are unconstitutional and are racial gerremandered. Democrats said it would suppress it The voices of people of color.
The move comes when the American speaker Mike Johnson, self -proclaimed head of the 'majority protection program', has had to deal with extensive negotiations within his slender majority to pass the agenda of President Donald Trump.
Democratic Texas State Rep. Jolanda “Jo” Jones looks through the American congress district cards during a redistribution seat in the Texas Capitol on July 24 in Austin, Texas. – Eric Gay/AP
Democrats have threatened to respond nationally to the redistribution in Texas with the same tactics in states such as California and New York. National Democratic Redistricting Committee chairman Eric Holder, an old critic of partisan gerremwerning, says it is now time for Democrats to change their approach.
“We must understand that the nature of the threat placed on the land by what they are trying to do in Texas has really increased the danger for our democracy. And as a result we must do things that I might not have supported in the past,” he said on ABC's “this week” on Sunday.
Holder, a former Attorney General, said that Democrats would still pursue roads, including increasing voter consciousness and setting a lawsuit against the state.
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