Senate Democrats are pressurizing the office of Special Counsel (OSC) to investigate whether the officials of the White House have violated the Hatch Act in their push for Texas and other Republican states that are in mid -decade. Redistribution effort,
In A letter dated Tuesday And addressed the senior OSC advocate Charles Baldis, the Senators commented on the White House on July 15, when the senators commented He addressed Texas’s redistribution push and “said the effort is to attract the new district lines where ‘I think we will get five’ Republican House seats to change the current democratic members of the Congress.”
The MPs also reported to report that senior administration officials met with Texas House Republican, “To discuss a white house push, to resume their Congress maps ahead of the midnarm, according to the letter,” led by Sen Alex Padila (D-Kalif) and included by the censor.
The Hatch Act – which prevents federal employees from participating in political activity on duty or on federal property – does not apply to the President. But Democratic Senator said that the administration officials may be in violation of the law and asked the OSC to investigate.
“The President may not be subject to the sanctions of the Hatch Act on political activities, his senior officers and the US justice department at the White House are subject to its legal requirements,” the letter was read. “Several reports indicate that the White House officials are involved in a political pressure campaign to convince Republicans in Texas and other states, re -preparing district lines with the target of providing a benefit to the Republican party in the 2026 mid -term elections.”
“We believe an OSC investigation has been warned to determine whether senior officials of the White House are violating the prohibition of law on the impenetrable biased political activity,” the senators continued in the letter.
The senators expressed similar concern with a DOJ letter that they said “the Hatch could violate the Act.”
On July 7, he pointed out Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) and Texas Attorney General Ken Pasteon (R) to a letter sent from Assistant Attorney General Harmet Dhillon and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Gates, which are “serious concerns” about the “democrats control” of four majority-mines.
The senators stated that the contradictory arguments in the letter were that “it suggests that the DOJ letter is clearly an excuse for biased political attempt that is already out in the open.”
The senators wrote in the letter, “This letter and other possible tasks cannot be known by the DOJ, directed on the success or failure of a political party and designed to influence the results of the upcoming Congress elections.”
He said, “We respectfully request whether the OSC further investigated whether the officials of the Senior White House and the US Department of Justice are violating the prohibition of the federal law on the impervious political activity,” he said.
An OSC spokesperson confirmed the receipt of the letter and said, “The agency is in the process of reviewing it.”
