The US capitol in Washington, DC, is shown on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 (photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
States conducted by Democrats should oppose the temptation to carry out their own redistribution in the middle of the decades in the middle of the decades in a response to Republicans in Texas legislation that move to the US house management before the 2026 elections, said civil servants of the non-participating election integrity group Common Cause on Tuesday at a press call on Tuesday.
While the efforts of the Republicans in Texas to resume the districts of the congress in the middle of a decade, instead of the ten -year census, how it is typical -the civil servants said that the creation of impartial redistribution of commissions that take out the job of the hands of the citizens have a better policy as a reverting weapon breed.
Common cause, a national organization with several state chapters, is often with progressive causes, but is committed to a fair redistribution regardless of the party.
Emily Eby French, the political director of a common thing in Texas, said the election infrastructure should be neutral and argues against the proposal of the California governor Gavino Newsom and other democrats that Blue States pursue the redistribution of the partisan advantage of medium -sized decoration.
“Our election infrastructure should not have a thumbs on the scale for both sides,” said French.
“In Texas, conservatives press their thumbs so hard in the scale that it is impossible to overcome,” she continued. “Perhaps it would be a quick solution that Democrats press their thumbs on their own scales. But then it is only manipulated elections all over America. The real solution for Democrats that help us to raise the republican thumb from the scale in Texas and any other scale in America until we reach free and fair elections for everyone.”
Russia Chavis Cardenas, the deputy director of a common cause, California, added that Newsom should not “fight fire”. Partisanian redistribution processes adversely adversely disadvantageous, she said.
The Californian independent redistribution commission, which consists of five Democrats, five Republicans and four non -participating members, is the “gold standard … (to) independent process and conducted by the municipality, said Dan Vicuna, Senior Policy Director for coordination and fair representation at Common Cause’s National Office.
The state should not sacrifice this model for miniature -term political profits, he said.
Texas redistribution
After the 2024 elections, the Republicans had an advantage of 220-215 in the US house. These elections occurred on district cards after the 2020 census.
The GOP House majority was partially helped by the district map of Texas 2020, which brought Republican victories in almost two thirds of the districts of the state.
Civil rights groups sued the novel lines and claimed that some districts discriminated against black and Latin American voters.
The Republicans in Texas opposed the calls to re-draw the lines, but the US Ministry of Justice sent a letter this month in which the heads of state and government asked the heads of state and government to rethink.
The letter “was sloppy and transparent for the legislator of Texas to re -draw the GERRYMADER congress card of the state, and somehow gerrymander somehow even more in favor of the Republicans,” said Vicuna on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump quickly dissolved this pretext and put the topic naked politically on a call with the Texas Republicans. Trump said the lines of the state should be re -drawn to create five additional US house seats. The Texas Tribune reported. The party of a president usually loses the seats of the congress during the intermediate elections.
After the letter, the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, a Republican, called a special meeting to deal with the redistribution, among other things.
The -states answers
In addition to New York and Illinois, the leaders of the democratic strongholds of New York and Illinois are considering initiating their own redistribution processes by initiating their own redistribution processes.
Other prominent national democrats demand that the party are more aggressive in redistribution.
US Senator Ruben Gallego wrote on x Last week, the Democrats were supposed to break some strongly democratic districts of majority minority to gain more seats.
In follow-up contributions that reacted to answers, Gallego, a Democrat from Arizona, wrote that Democrats should have the districts in their favor.
“It is bad if everyone does it,” wrote the senator and the former house member about GERRYMERING. “But that should not unilaterally disarm until the GOP does it.”
Gallego’s post was retired by Jessica Post, a campaign strategist that previously headed the Democrats’ state legislative arm. But mostly the current institution of the party does not comment on.
A July 23 Memo The redistribution in Texas mentioned to the employees of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee by Heather Williams, who was waned as President of the group, said that in the next three election cycles before 2030, it only increased the operations for Statehouse races.
“Today Donald Trump and his allies in the States openly urge new, Gerrymander seats in Texas to protect the lean majority of the GOP by 2026, it is clear that this is only a preview of what will come,” wrote Williams. “The redistributing struggle 2030 has already started.”
The democratic congress campaign campaign, the official campaign arm for house democrats, did not answer a message that requested a comment on Tuesday.
Vicuna asked the reporters with a common thing in order not to see as a partisan conflict, but as a question of representing voters.
“This familiar framework, which fully redistributed through a political struggle between the parties, is also the problem,” he said. “Ultimately, this is about a fair representation for municipalities who receive a say in being at the table when decisions are made about whether they can have a fair representation. And I think that is what we really talk about here, not just about the food fight between the parties.”
