Texas village. Greg Abbott (R) said on Sunday that he would be ready to call the indefinite special sessions of the state Legislature to force through a new Congress map, which tries to increase pressure on Texas Democrats who have voted from the state.
Abbott said on Fox News, “This can really happen last year.” “As soon as it finishes one, I am going to call another one, then one and one, then one, one and then one.”
The scorched earth fight between the governor’s camp and Texas Democrats, which is deprived of a quorum to the state legislature for California, Illinois and other blue states, proceeded through the previous week with only various legal challenges.
Abbott and Texas Attorney General Kane Paxon (R) filed Cases Demand to declare the seats of blue MPs vacant. Sen John Cornin (R-Texas), which is locked in a bitter primary with Paxon, has also sought to set his own deal Claim The FBI was helping to execute the civil warrant to bring back the Democrats back to the state. It is not clear that the bureau actually did so.
More than 50 Democratic MPs have Left States face $ 500 fine for each day, they do legislative business. Many of them have seen political donors to help cover costs.
The fight on redistribution has also threatened to spread to other states. California village Gavin Newsome (D) said on Friday that it will be seek Potentially offset the benefits made in red states like Texas to allow Democrats to re -create the map of the House of the state. New York village. Kathy Hochul (D), which appeared on Fox after Abbut, is also Considering Relating.
However, Abbott dismissed the blue-state efforts to resume maps as “weak sauce”, claiming that those states were already engaged in biased Germanding to a maximum possible extent.
“They have run out of Republican, they can remove from the office,” he said.
