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Washington – Some Republicans representing competitive districts in the Blue States express themselves against the push of their party to redraw the lines of the Congress in Texas In an attempt, give the GOP up to five other house seats.
Kevin Kiley representatives, R-Calif., And Mike Lawler, RN.Y., called to impose national limits on the gerrymandering partisan, a rare decision for the Washington Republicans who have thwarted prohibitions for years.
Democratic governors like Gavin Newsom from California and New York Kathy Hochul threatened to retaliate against Texas by continuing their own redistribution plans that could eliminate swing districts held by the GOP, like these Lawler and Kiley represent it.
Kiley announced that he would present legislation on Tuesday to cancel the new chamber cards that the United States adopts before the 2030 census, including those that could be approved this year.
This would block the current effort in Texas and any potential push in California, said its office.
“Gavin Newsom is trying to overthrow voters’ desire and make sustainable damage to democracy in California,” Kiley said in a statement on Monday. “Fortunately, the congress has the capacity to protect Californian voters using its authority under the elections of the US Constitution.
Lawler, a republican colleague from the second mandate which represents a swing district, also said that he would present legislation to prohibit Gerrymandering in each state.
“Gerrymandering is false and should be prohibited everywhere – including in New York, Texas, California and Illinois. I present legislation to ban it, “said Lawler said on Monday on Xinviting Democrats to connect.
However, it is unlikely that the Republican leaders of the Chamber will authorize a vote on any legislation to limit the partisan redistribution. It would be a proposal for long -standing opinion of the party that Washington should not impose such limits on the States. President Mike Johnson’s office, R-La., Did not immediately comment on the idea.
Addressing journalists recently at the Capitol, representative Richard Hudson, RN.C., president of the campaign operation of the Republicans of the House, has kept distances from the push of Texas and would not say if he supports it.
“Well, it’s in the United States. I mean, I have nothing to do with that. I discovered it when you all wrote about it,” said Hudson. When asked if he worries about the California response, he replied: “I am not worried. Some of the states, they can do what they want to do. ”
Newsom has set up an aggressive thrust in recent days, on podcasts and social media, to strengthen support for the California redistribution commission and to allow the democratic legislature of the state supermajority to draw its own cards for the districts of the Chamber. He even has republished a hypothetical suggestion of a user To create an extremely Gerrymandered card with 52 seats adapted to the Democrats, which would eliminate the nine Republicans currently representing California, including Kiley.
And the Washington Democrats have attempted to adopt legislation to ban partisan gerrymandering, some of the past few years during the Biden administration. A section of the scanning for the law on people of 2021 would have forced all the States to set up independent redistribution commissions with a balanced partisan representation. The Democrats adopted it in the chamber along the parties of the parties during the Biden administration, but a different version of the bill did not overcome a filibusier of the GOP Senate.
Fighting to reconquer the majority and become a speaker, the leader of the minority Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.y., turned to the fight against GOP’s efforts in Texas in recent weeks. In Capitol Hill, Jeffries met with members of the Californian Congress Delegation to discuss the response to Texas Republicans, a democratic legislator said.
Last week, Jeffries went to Texas State Capitol in Austin to meet democrats both in the Congress Delegation and the State to draw attention to the issue. He said that the Texas special legislative session should have focused on fixing the state broken energy grid And “relief, resumption and resilience” following the deadly floods in the country of the hills.
“Donald Trump ordered Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans to return to Austin to have a special session in order to rig the Congress card and undermine the capacity of Texans to have a free and just halfway up. This is false,” said Jeffries during a press conference, flanked by Democrats.
“It’s a moment of all hands on the bridge, and all the options should be on the table to protect the inhabitants of Texas,” he continued. “We will fight them politically. We will fight them on the government. We will fight them in court. We will fight them in terms of victory in the heart and mind of the inhabitants of Texas and beyond. ”
Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Said that if the Republicans use the redistribution tactic, the Democrats had to fight with the same firepower.
“I hate what Texas does. But if they do it, of course, we have to retaliate,” Murphy told NBC News. “The democracies die when the regime plays outside the beaten track and the opposition decides to stay inside the box. So as standards change, we can’t just cry about it. We have to fight fire with fire. “
Another Democrat, representative Mark Takano of California, who should become chairman of the veterans committee again if the Democrats resumed the Chamber next year, said that he was convinced that Californian voters would have the back of the Democrats if they were continuing the redistribution of mid-December.
“California voters are quite clear that … not just California, but the future of our country is injured by the fact that Donald Trump has no check,” said Takano. “I think that California is very interested in seeing a check putting the power of Donald Trump; he is voracious. He sees no limit to himself. Everything is very personal for him, and it is frankly corrupt.”
