On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Texas Democrats, JB Pritzkar along with Illinois village and Democratic National Chairing Ken Martin are meeting on Tuesday, to continue the fight against a revision scheme to add five seats in favor of Republican.
The Texas Legislature tried to meet on Monday to consider a bill to re -prepare the Congress districts of the state, but Democratic members who left the state Did not return in the weekend, Quorum The session needs to be called.
The village. Greg Abbott has since vowed to take steps to remove those MPs from their seats, and said that he had signed a Texas house speaker Dustin Baroz that he had signed Civil arrest warrant For absent democrats.
In a press release, DNC president Martin said, “Instead of giving priority to disaster relief for flood victims, Texas Republicans are misusing their special legislative session, which during midnight to stick the election maps and to texas in a fierce attempt to stick to the election and eat food benefits.
A deadlock in Texas after leaving the Democrat state
Abbott has ordered the state soldiers to help find and arrest the democrats leaving the state, but outside Texas, physically legally legalists are beyond the jurisdiction of the state officials.
“If you continue to go down this road, the results will be,” house speaker rape. Dustin Baroz told the chamber floor, later told reporters, including the fine.
Democrats’ rebellion and the dangers of Abbott intensified the fight on the Congress map starting in Texas, but now it includes Democratic Governor, such as Pritjkar, who has resumed his district map in retaliation – even if Their options are limitedThe dispute also reflects President Trump Aggressive view of presidential power And his hold on the Republican Party at the national level, testing long -term balance of powers between the federal government and individual states.
Fout to get five more GOP-fold Congress seats at the expense of Democrats, the Center for Sri Trump’s effort Mid -termThis would enhance his party’s possibility of preserving the majority of his delicate American home, some Republican Trump unable to do it in the 2018 midnight during the first presidential post of Trump. Republican is currently 25 of Texas’s 38 seats. This is about 2 -to -1 advantage and already a wide biased difference compared to the 2024 President’s results: Trump won 56.1% of Texas’s 56.1% ballot, while Democrat Kamla Harris received 42.5%.
Mr. Trump said on Tuesday that Republican “deserves five more seats.”
Voting status
Texas MLAs who left the state refused to say how long they would stay out.
Rape tray Martinez Fisher said in Illinois, “When we came on the aircraft that we are in this for a long race, the rape tray in Illinois was said.
Texas House Democratic Cocks Leader Jean Wu said that the members will “do whatever will do”, but added, “what it looks like, we don’t know.”
Legislative walkout There is often a delay in passage of only one billLike 2021, when many Democrats left Texas For 38 days Opposing the proposed polling sanctions. Once they returned, the Republican passed the remedy.
Legalists cannot pass the bill without two-thirds of members in a 150-member house. According to the Democratic colleague, the Democrats held 62 seats in the majority-Republican Chamber and left at least 51 states.
The Texas Supreme Court held in 2021 that the leaders of the house could “physically force the appearance of the missing members”, but no Democrats were forcibly brought back to the state. Served after warrant. Republican replied by adopting $ 500 daily fine for MPs who do not show.
Meanwhile, Abbott continued to make unbalanced claims that some MPs have made hooliganism by pleading for a possible fine to leave Texas during the session.
