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The Texas Senate began its league Friday greeting debating a arguable GOP redistricting measure that triggered a weeks-long House standoff.
The Republican-backed proposal, which passed the House in an 88-52 party-line ballot connected Wednesday, aims to redraw the state's legislature map and nutrient 5 caller GOP-leaning districts.
The Texas Senate Committee connected Redistricting advanced the measure Thursday with a ballot on enactment lines.
It's unclear whether the Democrats successful the Texas Senate volition effort to hold the ballot by breaking quorum themselves. When a akin redistricting measure passed the Senate during the archetypal peculiar session, each but 2 Democrats walked retired of the enclosure successful protest. If each 11 Democrats are absent, Republicans would beryllium 1 legislator shy of a quorum.
Once approved by the Republican bulk successful the afloat Senate, the measure volition caput to Gov. Greg Abbott's table for his signature.
Democrats person vowed to situation the legality of the caller representation successful court, arguing it undermines just practice and dilutes number voting power.
California launches counter-redistricting plan
The Texas redistricting program has sparked a nationwide combat implicit governmental boundaries.
Earlier this year, President Trump asked Abbott to telephone a peculiar league truthful lawmakers could make further Republican districts, the New York Times reported. The antithetic mid-decade redistricting was meant to assistance the GOP clasp its constrictive bulk successful the House of Representatives aft the 2026 midterm elections.
The president's enactment astir ever loses seats successful Congress successful the midterms, according to humanities data. Democrats gained 41 House seats and the bulk successful 2018, Mr. Trump's archetypal term, and Republicans picked up 9 seats to assertion the bulk successful 2022, during President Biden's term.
Texas House Democrats fled the authorities for 2 weeks bash contradict a mandatory quorum successful the House, sidesplitting the the archetypal peculiar league and visiting bluish states to drum up support. They returned earlier this week, allowing the votes to proceed.
During that time, California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined the fight, introducing a new legislature map to flip 5 of California's seats from Republican to Democratic. Voters volition request to o.k. the program successful a peculiar predetermination called for the fall.
Newsom said the determination was indispensable to "fight occurrence with fire" and forestall what helium called a Trump-backed effort to rig the 2026 midterm elections.
Steven Rosenbaum is simply a integer shaper for CBS Texas. A versatile journalist, Steven writes, edits and produces contented for the CBS Texas integer platforms.
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