Texas house votes to approve Republican redistricting maps

Texas legislator approved the new congress maps to provide an advantage to the Republicans in the US House of Representatives next year.

After a two -week stance in which the Democrats fled from the state to stop the votes, rally supporters and Republicans in the Texas House of Texas passed the new voting lines with 88 – 52 votes.

The maps will now go to the Texas Senate, which is expected to be quickly approved.

New maps give Republicans five seats, which are currently held by the Democrats and support the majority of the US house. However, states under the leadership of the Democratic are trying to redraw their maps to balance these gains.

President Donald Trump, Congress MPs in 2026 again in the ballot, which will be again in the US house to protect the majority of the Republican maps drew the maps.

The vote followed a dramatic stance where state democrats escaped from the state to stop the voting of new maps.

At least two -thirds of the 150 -member state legislature in Texas should be ready to continue the vote called core. After the Democrats escaped, the Texas House of Representatives became unreachable.

Texas Gov Greg Abbott issued an arrest warrant for group members and said that more than one democrat, law enforcement officers were watching their homes.

The MPs came back this week and said that they believed that their stances believed that they helped create a widespread awareness about the redistribution plans and caused multiple states to cause their own plans to counter the Republicans.

On Monday, Texas House President Dustin Burrows ordered the locking of the doors of the room.

He also said that an officer determined to be “detained” to ensure that the Democrats return to the state house on Wednesday for redistribution vote.

Instead, several democrats tear written agreements for the police escort. Nicole Collier, a state representative, a deputy, chose to sleep in the home room instead of accompanying it by an officer.

Since Texas began to multiply these new voting maps, other states controlled by both political parties, including Florida, New York, Ohio and Missouri, have made political changes in voting maps.

California deputies are currently discussing new maps that will provide new advantages to democrats in five regions and cancel the changes in Texas.

An important provision in California said that changing maps will only come into force if Texas or other states continue with changes that prefer Republicans.

The changing maps in Texas have led to concerns about Gerrymandering – the re -drawing of the election limits to choose a political party – legal motivated unless it is racially motivated.

Like other states, Texas redirects the congress regions once for ten years when new population data were released by the US census.

Texas Democrats claim that the re -scratching maps before the number of next census in 2030 was made along racial lines – an argument rejected by the Republicans. The voting maps approved in 2021 after the last number of population are currently prosecuted on allegations of racial discrimination.

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