The Democratic state MLAs fled from Texas on Sunday, hoping to vote on a new Congress map in an attempt to denote a quorum to Republican, which prefer GOP even more than the current districts.
Republican New map unveiled Earlier this week, GOP’s Razor-Thin US House as part of a mid-decade redistribution in an attempt to protect the majority. President Trump Said in July He believes that Republicans can win five more seats in Texas with various districts.
Texas village. Greg Abbott included redistribution to address in a special legislative session, as well as other high-profile disciplines such as disaster relief for deadly Texas floods and a THC ban.
Both houses of the Texas Legislature are controlled by Republican, but if most Democratic MPs left the state, they can deny the state house and Senate two-thirds of the quorum that they need to vote on the new Congress map.
At least 51 Texas Democrats have fled to Chicago. Politico was the first to report that MPs left the state.
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Republican in Texas is currently 25 of the state’s 38 Congress seats. The party hopes that the new maps can bring that number up to 30, and all those new 30 seats were won by Mr. Trump by at least 10 points in November.
Five seats come from Rio Grande Valley Districts – where Mr. Trump once was a Democratic stronghold – and has made a profit in Austin in the districts of Lloyd Doggate and Greg Sesar, including reps. In northern Texas, rape. Julie Johnson’s suburbs will be re -designed to spread the 32nd district from Dallas region to rural Republican strongholds, and rape. Mark VC will be completely taken out of the Tarant County, which will leave only a small portion of the county depicted by a democrat. All four Houston-region seats were re-prepared with rape al-Green being the most dramatic.
Democrats are Fought back against new districtsHouse Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrees on Thursday vowed a national support to travel to Austin.
This is not the first time Democrats have left the kingdom to deprive the Republican to a quorum – not the first when they have done it to oppose it. Landmarks escaped during two separate special sessions to prevent redistribution of Texas Democrats during the mid-decade of 2005. But the redistribution eventually passed. And in 2023, Republican passed the law that impose a fine of $ 500-day on MPs leaving the state.
The final significant quorum brake at the Texas House was in 2021, when Democrats fled to the state to prevent a restrictive voting bill.
Last month, Texas Attorney General Kane Paxon Threatened to help police In the “Hunting Down and Into the Attendance” of any democratic MPs who leave the state to block votes during a special session.
“If the Democrats break the quorum and ignore their duties towards their components, they should be found and arrested, no matter what they are,” said Paxton, which is also running for GOP enrollment in the next year’s Senate race.
