Democrats flee Texas to stop Trump-backed Republican redistribution map

Democratic lawmakers fled Texas to stop voting on the new Congressional map, which would be beneficial to Republicans.

The rezoning, which most Republicans in Texas last week, unveiled by Donald Trump, will create five new Republican-oriented seats in the U.S. House.

To vote, two-thirds of the Texas Legislature must be attended by 150 members. Fifty-one Democratic lawmakers fled, most of whom fled to Illinois, denying the quorum necessary for Republicans.

They said they planned to stay for two weeks until the special legislative session convened by Greg Abbott, Republican of Texas.

A meeting was held to approve the re-division and provide relief for last month’s deadly Texas floods and ban THC, an active ingredient in marijuana.

Each of the 51 members of the MP could face a $500 (£380) fine every day, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, threatened to arrest them.

On X, he said, the state should “use every tool we can use to hunt down those who think they are beyond the law.”

“The Democrats in the Texas House tried to escape like a cow, arrest and immediately take him back to the Capitol,” he wrote.

In a statement, Texas Democrats defended the move.

“We are not responsible for our responsibility,” said state lawmaker and chairman of the State Representative and Democratic caucus Gene Wu.

“We are refusing to listen to the manipulation system we represent.”

Although Democrats threaten to sell and sell strategies nationwide, their choices may be limited.

In the states where they handle the rezoning process, such as Illinois, New Mexico and Nevada, Democrats have moved around as eagerly as Republicans.

For example, the latest map of Illinois Get F-class from Princeton Gerrymandering Project Because it is rated politically so unfair.

But in other democratically controlled countries, such as New York, California, Colorado and Washington, the rezoning is handled by nonpartisan, independent commissions rather than the state legislature.

Texas Republicans currently have 25 of the 38 congressional seats in Lone Star State.

They hope the new map can increase that number to 30 — a constituency that Trump scored at least 10 points last November.

Texas’ re-division could help dominate the slim Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, with Trump’s party currently having 219 out of 435 seats and Democrats with 212.

The new map will include a re-division of the Rio Grande Valley and combine the state capital of Austin, currently held by Democrats.

In northern Texas, the map will expand the area held by Democratic Congressman Julie Johnson to include a rural Republican stronghold.

It will also re-draw four Houston-area seats, including those held by Democratic Congressman Al Green.

Texas lawmaker Todd Hunter, a Republican, sponsored measures to repaint maps, calling it “a good plan for Texas.”

This is the third time in the past few years that the Democrats fled Texas to deny the Republican quorum.

The party’s lawmakers set out for Washington, D.C. in 2021, and ultimately failed to try to prevent the passage of new election rules.

Texas Democrats also traveled to Oklahoma in 2003 to stop redistricting Republicans eventually received approval.

When the voting map is remarked to explain population changes, states usually re-divided every 10 years.

The most recent U.S. census was in 2020. In the mid-tenth, re-demarcation of areas was unusual.