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The nationalist redistricting conflict enters its adjacent signifier with California Democrats scheduled Thursday to walk a caller legislature representation for voters to see successful November that would make 5 much winnable seats for their party, a nonstop antagonistic to the GOP Texas House members imposing a caller representation connected their state's voters astatine the urging of President Donald Trump.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has engineered the high-risk strategy successful effect to Trump’s brinkmanship successful Texas, wherever transition by the Republican-controlled authorities Senate and signature by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott are present each that’s needed to marque the maps official. California by opposition has an autarkic committee and lone a voter-approved ballot measurement tin override the existent map.
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Trump escalates threats against California implicit transgender policies
“Any California schoolhouse territory that doesn’t adhere to our Transgender policies, volition not beryllium funded,” Trump said successful a Thursday greeting societal media posting.
The caller informing from Trump comes aft his medication sued the California Department of Education past period for allowing transgender girls to vie connected girls’ sports teams, alleging the argumentation violates national law.
The suit filed by the Justice Department says California’s transgender jock policies interruption Title IX, the national instrumentality that bans favoritism successful acquisition based connected sex.
California has sued the Trump medication for unlawfully intimidating wellness attraction providers into stopping gender-affirming attraction for transgender youth. That suit was filed with attorneys wide from 15 states and the District of Columbia, positive the politician of Pennsylvania.
State Department property serviceman fired aft questioning talking points connected Israel and Gaza
Officials said Shahed Ghoreishi, a contractor moving for the Bureau of Near East Affairs, was terminated implicit the play pursuing 2 incidents successful which his loyalty to Trump medication policies was questioned.
He and 2 existent U.S. officials accidental helium drew ire for drafting a effect to an Associated Press query related to discussions betwixt Israel and South Sudan astir the imaginable relocation of Palestinians from Gaza to South Sudan. The draught effect included a enactment that said the U.S. does not enactment the forced relocation of Gazans, thing that Trump and his peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff person said repeatedly.
That enactment was rejected by the U.S. Embassy successful Jerusalem, according to Ghoreishi and the officials. He besides questioned an embassy connection referring to the West Bank arsenic the biblical “Judea and Samaria.”
The officials spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon interior unit changes.
Texas politician says caller maps volition ‘better bespeak the existent votes of Texans’
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott says he’ll motion into the instrumentality the redrawn U.S. House districts that springiness his enactment 5 much winnable seats. He had enactment escalating unit connected Democrats to travel location during their two-week walkout that had delayed the vote.
“While Democrats shirked their duty, successful futility, and ran distant to different states, Republicans stayed the course, stayed astatine enactment and stayed existent to Texas,” helium said.
Abbott spoke aft the Texas Republicans utilized their bulk successful the House to o.k. the caller legislature voting maps connected Wednesday. Seconds later, House Speaker Dustin Burrows removed the “call of the House.” The enclosure doors were unlocked and House members are present allowed to leave.
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