The US Capitol in Washington is shown on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 (photo of Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
States managed by Democrats should resist the temptation to conduct their own redistribution in the middle of a decade in response to Republicans in Texas, who move to the exaggeration of American home lines before the election in 2026, officials with an impartial group of election integrity, as a common thing, as they said on Tuesday in a press conversation.
When blowing up the efforts of Texas Republicans to process congress districts in the middle of a decade – instead of a ten -year universal list, as is typical – officials said that the creation of not partisan redistitrings committees that would acquire work from the hands of politicians, was a better policy than joining the breed.
A joint cause, a domestic organization with several state chapters, is often adapted to progressive causes, but supporters of fair redistribution regardless of the party.
Emily E to French, Policy Director of Common Cause Texas, said that the election infrastructure should be neutral, arguing against the suggestions of the governor of California Gavina Newsoma and other democrats that blue countries carry out redistribution in the middle of a decade for partisan parties.
“Our election infrastructure should not have a thumb on a scale on both sides,” said French.
“In Texas, conservatives press their thumbs so hard on the scale that it cannot be overcome,” she continued. “Perhaps a quick solution would be that the Democrats would press their fingers crossed on their own scales. But these are only choices in America. The real solution is that the democrats would help us relate a republican thumb from the Texas scale and any other scale in America, until we reach free and honest choices for everyone.”
Russia Chavis Cardenas, deputy director of Common Cause California, added that the news should not “fight fire”. She said that partisan redistributive processes are in nature unfavorable communities.
The Independent California Commission for Redistrictions, consisting of five Democrats, five Republicans and four members who are not Parisans, is a “gold standard … (an) independent and a process managed by the community,” said Dan Vicuna, senior director of politics in voting and fair representation at the Common Cause national office.
He said that the state should not devote this model to tiny -term political profits.
Texas redistributing
Republicans had an advantage of 220-215 in the United States Chamber after the election in 2024. These elections took place on district maps drawn after the universal census of 2020.
Most GOP House was partly helped by the district map in Texas 2020, which caused republican victories in almost two -thirds of state districts.
Civil rights groups sued novel lines, claiming that some districts discriminated against black and Latin voters.
The Republicans of Texas based on calls to exaggerate the line, but the US Department of Justice sent a letter calling for the leaders of states to be considered again.
The letter “was sloppy and transparent, created an excuse for legislators from Texas to redraw the germanded congress map and somehow Gerrymander it even more in favor of the Republicans,” said Vicuna on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump quickly solved this pretext, putting this issue of naked political conditions on the call with Republicans from Texas. Trump said that state lines should be reborn to create five additional places in an American home, Texas Tribune announced. The president’s party usually loses congress fines during the middle of the period.
After the letter, Governor Texas Greg Abbott, a Republican, called, among others, a special session to solve redistribution.
DEM states correspond to
In addition to the news of the leaders of democratic claims in New York and Illinois, they consider retaliation by initiating their own redistribution processes in the middle of the decade, in accordance with the New York Times report.
Other eminent nation democrats call the party to a more aggressive in redistribution.
USA Senator Ruben Gallego wrote on x Last week, democrats should break some thorough democratic majority districts to facilitate get more places.
In subsequent posts corresponding to the answers, Gally, Democrat in Arizona, wrote that Democrats should in their favor the districts of Gerrymander.
“It’s bad when everyone is doing it,” a senator wrote about the first period and a former member of the house about gerrymandering. “But demos should not disarm unilaterally as long as GOP does it.”
Post Gallo was sent further by Jessica Post, a strategist of the campaign that previously managed the Democrats’ legal campaign. But the current party plant does not largely comment.
AND July 23 note To the Democratic Committee of the Legislative Campaign Heather Williams, which replaced the post as the president of the group, mentioned redistribution in Texas, but said that he raised the stake for state races in the next three election cycles before the redistribution of 2030.
“Today, because Donald Trump and his allies in the States openly press the drawing of new, gerrymander places in Texas to protect the modest majority of the GOP house leading until 2026, it is obvious that this is only an announcement of what is to come” – wrote Williams. “Redistribution struggle in 2030 began.”
The Democratic Committee of the Congress Campaign, the official arm of the House Democrats campaign, did not respond to the message seeking a comment on Tuesday.
Vicuna, with a common cause, called reporters to perceive redistribution not as a guerrilla conflict, but as a matter of representation of voters.
“This is familiar framing, which makes separation completely about the political fight between parties is also a kind of problem,” he said. “Ultimately, it is about the honest representation of the community, saying, being at the table, when decisions are made whether they can have an honest representation. And I think we are really talking here, not just the fight against food.”
