The MP in the state of Texas, Golanda “Jo” Jones, a democratic, turns through maps during a public hearing about the re -division of Congress in Austin, Texas, on August 1. After the draft law approved the committee, the government democrats fled to Illinois and New York to break softness and vote on the new maps, which prefer the Republic.
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The House of Representatives in Texas stops a dead end after Democrats fled the state during the weekend to prevent voting on a draft law to re -draw Congress maps in Texas. The draft law greatly prefers the Republicans, with five new regions of the Republican Party, which is owned by President Trump Publicly called for.
Republicans control the Texas house in a wide margin, but without the present Democrats, the 88 -year -old members alone are less than the legal quorum consisting of 100 members required to conduct work.
“In order to be completely clear, leaving the state does not prevent this house from doing its work – it only delays it,” Dustin Buroz, President of Texas House Dustin Buroz, told members in the room after failing to reach the quorum.
Then he asked to lock the doors of the room and soon approved a censor request in the weapons to issue civil arrest orders for the members of the uncomfortable House of Representatives.
Many missing persons The lawmakers fled To the strongholds of democracy in New York and Illinois rather than appearing in Capitol in Texas in Austin to vote, they would have certainly lost it.
“This is like two football teams coming out of the treasury room at the end of the first half, and the team that is waiting for them want to change the rules for the second half because they want to win the game.” NPR said From Illinois, where he is waiting to leave the quorum.
“I mean, we all realize that it is cheating, easy and simple. If the Republicans will cheat, the Democrats will not play in Texas.”
The governor of Texas Greg Abbott said In a statement Democrats who break the quorum must “behave like adults, instead of going to AWOL”, and must be expelled from his position.
On Monday, after the failed house session, he said he had I command The Ministry of Public Safety in Texas “to determine the location of the House of Representatives Chamber, and return to the House of Representatives Chamber, abandon their duty towards Texas.”
The public prosecutor of the Republic, Ken Pakston, who nominates the American Senate seat, He said in a press release The current legal framework “allows to find rogue legislators, arrest them and return them to Capitol.”
Two legislators in Texas who attended the National Conference on the Legislative Councils of the state in Boston on Monday speaking to journalists and warning against their colleagues in other states, which may come to them as well.
“It is Texas now, but it will continue in the rest of the states, and it will kill our democracy,” state deputy, Anna Hernandez, told reporters.
She and the state deputy, Armando Wall, a democratic colleague, were planning to come to Boston before the bill was summoned in Texas. They are planning to stay outside Texas until the special session ends on August 19.
The representatives of the state of Texas speak. Armando Wall and Anna Hernandez, both of whom are Houston Democrats, during a press conference at the National Conference of the Legislative Councils of the state, in Boston. They are planning to stay outside Texas until the state’s session will end on August 19.
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In New York, where many Democrats in Texas dismantled to avoid detention, the governor of the state, Cathy Hochol, held a press conference to support legislators, indicating that her blue majority will explore its electoral map. Looking at the state constitution, this may not be possible until 2027 or outside.
“If the Republicans are ready to rewrite these rules to give themselves an advantage, they do not leave us any option. We must do the same,” Hochol said.
The re -division of circles after the census occurs, and detention in the middle of the contract like this in Texas is rare, but the other states, including California and Missouri, are pushed to re -divide the circuits in their own attempts to lock partisan benefits. Ohio, who went strongly to Trump, re -divides the departments this year due to the state law for the year 2018.
This attempt was included by the Republicans in Texas in a special legislative session called by Abbott, the ruler, to address Hill’s killer floods that killed at least 136 people last month. Democrats in Texas disintegrate it as a taste and a transformation.
“The ruler has used this tragedy, took these sad families, took these societies that are struggling to recover, and used them as hostages in a political game,” said Jin Woo, Speaker of the House of Representatives in Texas.
Wu said: “This vote is a deep work of the contempt of the people of Texas. It is the final assertion that the Republicans carry, the Republicans will delightly make the voices of the Black and Latinians who fought for generations to hear,” Wu said.
“When the majority uses its authority is not in power, but erasing the voices of its citizens, it loses its legitimacy.”
The battle around the newly proposed congress map may start. The plan must pass in the House of Representatives before the Senate in Texas has its opinion.