Author: Melissa O’Rourke
A joint cause, the government watch group historically opposed the guerrilla gerrymandering, announced on Tuesday that she would not oppose the Blue States distance to redistribution in the middle of the cycle, criticizing the efforts of Republicans in Texas.
In Tuesday’s policy statementA common cause, which describes itself as “an impartial, bottom -up organization dealing in maintaining the basic values of American democracy,” refused to condemn redistributive efforts in the United States carried out by Democrats, such as California. At the same time, the group accused President of Trump and Republicans of “implementing a calculated, asymmetrical strategy” in Texas as part of the “wider march towards authoritarianism”.
Democratic Governor of California. Gavin Newsom and other democrat governors threatened to exaggerate the congress maps to counteract redistributive efforts managed by GOP Texas This can transfer to republicans to five additional places.
“At this serious moment, we understand why some countries, including California, are considering counterweight in response,” said a common case in their politics statement. “We will not support the guerrilla gerrymandering, even when its motive is to balance the more extreme gerrymandering by another party. But general condemnation at this point would mean a call to unilateral political disarmament in the face of authoritarian efforts to undermine the honest representation and democracy improved by people.”
This is a noteworthy change for a common reason, which last week conducted a pop-up of collecting funds on its website, saying that the news “is trying to copy the GOP textbook to increase its profile”, according to Politico. In July, the group also called democratic attempts in the redist in the middle of the “anti -democratic” cycle.
The group was also after the lost case of the Supreme Court 2019 Movement against a common causein which he questioned what he called the partisan and unconstitutional congress map of North Carolina. The court ruled that federal courts could not intervene in the partisan gerrymandering.
A joint reason stated in her statement that it would not condemn redistribution efforts in the middle of the cycle that follows its “criteria of honesty”, which require proportional departure of maps to the universal universal universal threat.
A common reason did not answer the Daily Caller News Foundation for comment.
However, efforts in California, California face significant legal challenges, because the state has a constitutionally independent redistribution commission since 2008. Special elections In November, voters approved the changed congress map.
Other democratic governors like JB Pritzker Illinois and Kathy Hochul from New York indicated their readiness to exaggerate their congress maps in response to efforts directed by Republicans. The redistribution process led by the legislator Illinois ensures flexibility for the attempt to redistribute in the middle of the decade, but the state is already high partisan The map leaves little space for further gerrymandering.
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Melissa O’Rourke is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Common Cause Supporters” by Common cause.
