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As a Texas Republicans slowly move forward with plans to redraw the Congress cards in mid-DecemberNew York Democrats advanced their own program on Tuesday to counter the GOP redistribution efforts.
But the effort faces a long arduous path and should not come into force for years, illustrating the limited options at the disposal of the Democrats while they are looking for ways to counter the GOP Rediscovery game in Texas.
The legislative democrats of Bastion Bleu have unveiled a bill which would allow the legislators of the State of Albany to lead the redistribution in mid -December – but only if another state should do it first.
The proposal would put in place, if it was adopted effectively, the prospect of a national redistribution of redistribution between Republicans and Democrats, with the control of the House of Representatives of Washington potentially at stake.
However, there are key differences between what is happening in New York and what is happening in Texas, including the moment of any real change of card. Texas Republicans seek to immediately adopt the new limits of the district for the 2026 elections.
The bill in New York, which is technically a constitutional amendment referred by the legislation, would allow the legislature of the State to redraw the districts of the Congress in the event that another State engages in the MI-Decennia redistribution.
The legislative assembly should be passed through two consecutive sessions – and must then be approved by voters to a voting measure. In theory, this means that the new cards that would be created would not be in place before the 2028 elections.
“New York will not remain the kinship while other states work to deprive voters,” said deputy head of the state of the New York State Senate, Michael Gianaris, who presented the bill in his room, in a statement. “States must play by the same rules for a legitimate democracy exists, and if red states intend to corrupt the redistribution process, New York will respond.” The Democrats of the State Assembly introduced an identical measure in their room.
The redistribution process in states generally occurs at the start of each new decade, when new census data is available.
In New York, this process has been checked since 2014 by the State independent redistribution commission – a bipartite body responsible for creating fairly approval of the legislative assembly. The commission was created when New York voters adopted a constitutional amendment amending the redistribution process. Previously, the Legislative Assembly controlled the entire process of legislative cards and the congress.
The Gianaris office said that the effort is a direct response to the ongoing attempt by the Texas Republicans to redraw its own Congress cards before the calendar – a program that could help win the GOP majority in the middle of next year.
A fight with national implications but different rules of state of state of state
At the request of President Donald Trump, the Governor of Texas Gregg Abbott summoned a special legislative session which started last week which includes the official redistribution of legislative tasks. The session, which lasts 30 days, is underway. Texas legislators have not yet publicly unveiled their favorite choices for redesigned cards.
The unforeseen effort has triggered a training effect, With governors across the country to float the possibility of following the prosecution to add or counter the plan – according to their party affiliation. This could include potential actions benefiting the Republicans of the Congress in Florida and Ohio.
In the case of New York, Governor Kathy Hochul said last week – in a precursor to the introduction of the Gianaris bill on Tuesday – This “everything is just in love and war” And that it would consider “closely” all the actions proposed.
In response to questions about the question of whether Hochul supported the proposal, spokesperson Emma Wallner referred NBC News to comments last week on “The Jim Acosta Show”.
“This is something we look at very closely,” Hochul said on this podcast. “We look at what’s going on there. And I don’t like a scenario where we are disadvantaged when we follow the rules. More to say about this later. ”
Another big blue state where the Democrats have pointed out that they could go ahead with early redistribution is California, where Governor Gavin Newsom, a potential presidential candidate in 2028, raised the idea.
As is currently the case in New York, an independent committee authorized by the Constitution of the State controls the redistribution process in California. The defeat of this process would also be complicated, much more than in states where redistribution is only a question of adopting a new law of the State, although the Democrats speak the idea anyway.
Before Congress legislators left Washington for a five -week summer recess, the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries room huddled in private with members of the California delegation. The meeting included a discussion on the question of whether the Democrats in California should restart its convention lines in response to Texas, said a source in the room, which added that Jeffries’ message was that each option should be envisaged.
In recent interviews with NBC News, California members of Congress said they would support such a plan.
“If Texas wants to compel the system, then I think we can’t just sit down and look at it and do nothing and say that we are going to have linked hands,” said representative Nanette Barragan, D-Calif., A member of the management team of Jeffries and the former president of the Hispanic Caucus. “We will have to keep our eyes on Texas, but I think we have to look at all the options.”
Another Democrat in California, the representative of friend Bera, member of the campaign management team of the Democrats in the Chamber, agreed that the Democrats should not sit and do nothing.
“I am a fan of independent redistribution commissions, but the fact that the Republicans play by a set of different rules, I think that it makes no sense that we disarm,” said Bera. “If they will play according to a set of rules and put the policy above all, we must also play Hardball.”
Bera said that he would have to abandon certain democratic parts of her district to give an advantage to the Democrats faced with more difficult races. “I am ready to give up some voters to put the majority back,” he said.
Representative Mark Takano, D-Calif., Said that “cannot be the case that only republican controlled states can maximize the redistribution of mid-December”.
But many civil servants in California, and elsewhere – and not only the Republicans – are strongly opposed to all the efforts to bypass the Commission, which was created by the voters via a voting measure.
“You cannot fight the Gerrymandering with more Gerrymandering. This is a short -term plan,” Patricia Sinay, a member of California Citizen Redistricting Commission on Tuesday, during a call with journalists. “Putting power to the legislators in place, lobbyists and special interests will bring back the political game which led us to an independent redistribution in the first place.”
Other opponents of efforts in California to redraw the early cards said that this would probably exceed black and brown voters from an adequate representation.
“The redistribution is not as cut and dry as some claim it,” said Russia Chavis Cardenas, deputy director of the Californian branch of the Common Cause surveillance group. “We know that gerrymandering harms the most to black, brown and poor communities – therefore for our colored communities, it is not a partisan problem, it is really a problem of representation.”
“We cannot let the Trump administration bait us to abandon our colored communities in the name of the political game,” she added. “By responding to fires – the efforts in Texas – with fire, the Democrats are likely to constantly harm their relationship with black and brown voters and, finally, diluting the voting power of black and brown voters.”
