Democrats run away from Texas to block Republican redistribution map backed by Trump

The legislators of the democratic state escaped from Texas to try to stop voting on a new map of Congress, which would greatly contribute to the Republicans.

Last week, the proposed redistribution – open to Texas Republicans and supported by President Donald Trump – would create five new national places in the House of Representatives. Currently, Republicans have only a slim majority in the ward.

Two-thirds of the 150-member legislative body must be present in order to vote. Fifty -one democratic legislator escaped from Texas, most of them in Illinois, denying Republicans needed quorum.

They said they plan to stay in the side two weeks by the end of the special legislative session.

This session was convened by Texas Governor Gueta Greg Ebat, who himself is a republican. He threatened to try to remove any legislators who did not return to Texas for voting.

The session in the Texas legislative body is conducted to ensure the elimination of the consequences of the disaster after the deadly floods of the last month in the state, as well as for the prohibition of Thc, the current ingredient in the cannabis – as well as approving the planned electoral redistribution.

Each of the 51 missing legislators may threaten a fine of $ 500 (380 pounds) for each day when they are visiting and Texas Prosecutor General Ken Poda, a Republican, threatened to arrest them.

Pokstan wrote on X that the state should “use every instrument at our disposal to track down those who think they are above the law.”

“Democrats in the Texas House trying to flee as cowards should be arrested, arrested and returned to the Capitol immediately,” he added.

In their statement, the Texas Democrats defended this step.

“We do not go to our duties,” said the state legislator and the chairman of the democratic gene kauka.

“We go out on a falsified system that refuses to listen to the people we represent.”

State Democrats received support for the National Party’s actions. The House of Representatives leader Jeffries said the group demonstrates “courage, persuasion and character”.

While Democrats across the country threatened Tat tactics, their capabilities may be limited.

In the states where they are engaged in the process of reorientation, such as Illinois, New Mexico and Nevada, the Democrats were already impatiently treated with Republicans.

For example, the last map of Illinois, eg got a FC from the Princeton Gerrymandering project Because it was evaluated so politically unfair.

But in other state democratic states, such as New York, California, Colorado and Washington, reorientation is engaged in non-partisan independent commissions, not by legislative bodies.

Currently, Texan Republicans occupy 25 of 38 places in Congress in the Lone Star.

They hope that new cards can increase this number to 30 – all in constituencies, which Trump won at least 10 points last November.

On the eve of the nationwide elections next year, Texas rethinking can help produce a slim national majority in the House, which is the lower house of Congress.

Currently, Trump’s party has 219 out of 435 places in the house, and the Democrats are 212.

The new map will include the redistribution of the Rio Grande Valley and combine two counties in the Ostin capital, which is currently occupied by Democrats.

In Northern Texas, the map will expand the Democratic Congress Julie Johnson, which is currently engaged in rural republican supports.

It will also redraw four places in Houston, including one, which is occupied by Democratic Congressman Al Green.

Texas Todd Hunter legislator, a Republican who sponsored the measure of overcoming the map, called it a “good plan for Texas.”

This is the third time in the last few years when the Democrats fled Texas to refuse Republicans quorum.

Party legislators flew to Washington in 2021, ultimately a failed attempt to block the passage of new election rules.

The Texas Democrats also left for Oklah in 2003, trying to stop the redistribution that the Republicans eventually succeeded.

Usually, states overcome redistribution every 10 years when voting cards are redesigned to account for changes in the population.

The last census was in 2020. The rehabilitation of the district lines in the middle of the decade is unusual.