Texas Democrats’s decision to escape from the state has increased tension and has launched a new phase in the revival war across the country.
Democrats from Lone Star State Legislature Illinois escapes in New York and Massachusetts To avoid giving Republicans, the quorum was required to pass a highly unusual effort for biased, midcad redistribution of quorum to start from Sunday that could benefit them in next year’s midnight.
In response, Texas Gove Greg Abbott (R) Ordered arrest Among the “criminal” democrats, after a long time, when the Republican at the State House directed a resolution, directing them to bring them back to the state under the warrant.
Abbott said in a statement on Monday afternoon, “Texas House Democrats gave up their duty for Texas.” “Running from the state, Texas House Democrats are making significant laws to help flood victims and to pursue property tax relief. The results of insult to duties.”
The rapidly growing title for Tat underlined how the redistribution battle has turned into an all-out national dispute, which both sides have expected a fierce midtarm election.
“Let’s clear, it is not just rigging the system in Texas,” Illinois village JB Pritjkar (D) told reporters on Sunday, flanks were flanks by Texas Democrats. “This is about rigging the system against the rights of all Americans for the coming years.”
The decision to break the quorum of Texas Democrats – or the minimum number of MPs required to conduct business in the legislature – came to carry forward another favorable GOP Congress map as Republican, which could purify them five additional seats before next year.
The backing move was encouraged by President Trump as a Republican for an adverse political environment next year – and if the party loses the House, the possibility of a democratic inquiry into his administration.
Democrats depicted a redistribution attempt As a naked power Republican. In 2021, the current map written by a Republican-discourse statehouse, gives Republicans 65 percent of the seats of the state Congress-a major benefit for 55 percent of the state’s 55 percent of the voters who vote for the party.
But if Trump gets five additional seats, then that profit will expand up to 80 percent of the state’s Congress House Cocks – there is no additional requirement for 25 percent profit.
A Texas House Panel House map advanced last weekTo up for a floor vote. With democrats out of the state, however, efforts to pass the new map have been temporarily stopped.
Apart from the dangers of arrest, Abbott also said that he would take away the MPs who failed to return to the state capital of their seats. Texas MPs already threatened to arrest for a fine of $ 500 daily and breaking the quorum, and Abbott first threatened him with bribery allegations on raising the National Democrats Tab.
“Texas don’t run by a fight – they face it,” Abbott Written on social platform x“These Texas Democrats who fled from the state are not serving Texas. They are serving themselves. They have seized their seats and are facing allegations of potential hooliganism.”
Talking to reporters in Illinois on Sunday, Texas House Democratic Cocks Chair Jean Wu said that he did not make the decision to leave the state lightly, but he said “it was” right to protect the people of the state of Texas. ”
Democratic leaders across the country were in a hurry to participate in the fight. California village
PitzkarI vow to saveLegislatives visiting their kingdom due to the threat of arrest from top leaders of Texas.
And hosting several Texas Democrats in his state on Monday, New York Sarkar Kathy Hochar (D)Said that she will find out various optionsIt is available to re -prepare the map of his kingdom.
Hocul said, “When we do not have the same aspirations in other states, which we always have, and I catch the dear, I get sick and tired, but I catch those dear, but I cannot ignore that the playground has changed dramatically,” said Hocul. “And we are ashamed if we ignore that fact and tighten the past. The era is over.”
Support from National Democrats, and arrest threats, marks a maritime change when Texas Democrats left the state for the last time when the Republicans were engaged in the mid-cycle redistribution in 2003.
The decision was then also in response to the reconstruction push of the then unpublished mid-decade by the Republican, which eventually turned the Congress delegation into two-to-one Republican dominance with a comfortable democratic majority, and closed under the GOP generation control over the state assembly.
The latest battle of Texas comes when the redistribution has become rapidly normal by both sides.
Cal Jilson, the historian of the historian of the Southern Methodist University, said that when the Republican stepped into the state’s house for the first time in 2002, he took power despite the state’s long-term re-democratic majority of the state to argue-to argue that he was entitled to his own stabs to attract new lines, called Historian Cal Jilson.
While the Democrats has already reprimanded the Texas GOP leaders for the Republican-Pasandida House Map, the party has also been criticized for doing so in states such as New York and Illinois, both have hosted Texas MPs.
In fact, a court hit a map passed by the New York Democrat in 2022 on Partison Germandering, instead made a special master appointed by a court to attract house lines.
The comprehensive redistribution tight-for-tat has also motivated a reversal to rebuild the commissions among some democrats, which was designed to make MPs with the intention of distance from the process of drawing maps.
At the same time, the redistribution battle has also created focus within the GOP, some of which are against the middle-cycle redistribution.
Rape. Kevin Kelly (R-Calif.) The law is presenting the law that will prevent the implementation of the new house map before the next US census in 2030,Although especially a statementCalled only newsom to California Republican.
But the Republican argues that Texas redistribution is their means to address what they say to an inappropriate national map symbols how much things have changed.
Unlike 2003, “you can not argue” that the Republican redistribution is preventing an inappropriate map in Texas, Jillson said, because the Gerimanderd Maps State GOP is now trying to redress, which was attracted by the State Republican four years ago. Abbott and most of the state Congress’s Republican opposed the redistribution, which he was worried that his seats would be threatened – until Trump presses, the Texas TribuneInformed
Republican also says that there are also risks involved, if Abbott tries to exclude the Democrat from its offices.
“So you take them out of the office and you have elections, so you still do not have a quorum. Then you originally shoot yourself in the leg,” lobist and political advisor Bill Miller said, who worked on the Tom Cradic (R) transition team in 2003, when the Cardic Texas House speaker – and the stunning of that year.
He said, “The only thing that I would say from my experience is these wounds that are created by these quarrels, are not easily cured, and they are remembered,” he said. “People forget for a long time in those ways.”
