Texas House pushes forward on redistricting as Democrats vow to fight | Texas
Texas Democrats in the State Legislative Assembly rejected the Republicans By leaving the state on Monday, a legislative competence, at least for now by the White House to reorganize the congress lines of Texas in an aggressive way by preventing plans.
When the legislature entered at 15:00 local time on Monday, the Republicans fled to the Democrats Boston, New York and elsewhere, Illinois, a legislative conference, and was inadequate with eight votes.
In an extraordinary climb, the state’s Republican Governor Greg Abbott said to the Texas Public Security Department that he had ordered him to find any members who abandoned their tasks, arrest and return to the parliamentary chamber.
“There are consequences to seek out of duty,” he said, “The consequences of the detention,” he said, after publishing civil arrest orders in order to force the return of the Republican house to the return of the escaped members. “This order will remain in force until the missing democratic House members explain and brought Texas Capitol.”
However, it will be difficult to implement Abbott’s order, because the democrats who leave the state are beyond the jurisdiction of the Texas officials.
The Democrats hold 62 of the 150 chairs in the lower room of the Legislative Assembly, so as long as there are at least 51 members from Austin, the Texas Legislative Assembly cannot proceed with any vote, including a plan to reconsider the congress maps by Donald Trump to give the Republicans five seats in the Congress.
The Texas speaker postponed the house until 13:00 on Tuesday after calling and threatening their arrests and threatening their arrest. In the call of the Democrats to return, he noted the controversial redistribution proposal before the room, but the legislation waiting for floods and human trafficking.
“Instead of confronting these difficulties, some of our colleagues escaped from the state in their duties, Bur Burrows said. “They left the state, abandoned their duties and turned their backs to the components they represented.
The Democrats accused Abbott of calling Abbott of calling a special session with Trump’s order instead of giving priority to disaster aid after the disaster floods that killed 135 people in the center of Texas last month.
I was going to see that Texas Congress member Julie Johnson twisted the governor of Texas of Texas from New York to a felon from New York, “I have never thought of the day as a member of the United States of the United States from Texas.
If the Texas Republicans succeeded, Johnson, who will be rooted in the region rooted, spoke to members of the Illinois Congress committee and a few state representatives who left Texas on Sunday.
“Texas House knows how to fight the Democrats, Jess Texas state representative Jessica González said. “Our arms are recovering and we are ready to take this fight wherever it will take us, because our communities, our state and our nation is definitely worth fighting.”
Texas Chief Public Prosecutor Ken Paxton, who escaped from his appeal hearings and rejected the order to release his travel records after talking at the rally before the January 6 uprising in Washington, described the democratic lawmakers as “coward”.
Speaker Burrows said the house would not sit quietly. “When preventing people’s work, the people of Texas are watching and watching the nation and selecting to continue this path, you should know that the results will happen.”
Democratic Caucus Texas House Democratic Caucus reply: “Come and take.”
State representative James Talarico said, “We are not fighting for the Democratic Party,” he said. Video message recorded at an airport. “We are fighting for the democratic process and the risks could not be higher. We should take an attitude.”
A few dozen protesters gathered in front of the governor’s mansion in Austin on Monday to protest the republicans’ hasty rewriting of the state congress regions.
The protesters, led by Democratic Congress Member Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett, walked back and forth along the parking lot in front of the gates of the governor’s mansion.
A Bullhorn praised the leading progressive, praised state democrats, republicans, republicans, republicans, for refusing to attract a new congress map that will sharpen the democratic voting power to protect the majority of Republicanism in the next year’s midterm.
In 1965, President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Vote Rights Law in 1965 to “prevent such maps”.
Im We will fight like hell to stop, ”he said. “We don’t come back before 1965.”
“I see him as a foot business child for President Trump,” said Doggett from Texas Governor Greg Abbott. “He didn’t want this map, he’s just following the orders.”
“Governor Abbott, the first day of this special session,” Governor Abbott could easily pass the flood assistance, “he added. “Instead, flood help hosts… All of him and Donald Trump.”
Casar said that each Republican Congress delegation, where he discussed the map, opposed his specifically redistribution efforts. The Republicans worried that Trump’s first redistribution plan could reclaim the state’s attempt to redefine the congress regions, because it is difficult to create new right -fired areas without making existing red regions less conservative.
Most of the democratic meeting fled to Chicago, a democratic mayor and a city council in a state with a democratic governor and legislative organ.
JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, the owner of Chicago Hyatt Hotel, announced that he will provide free rooms for Texas Democrats as long as they are outside the state on Monday.
A special session of the Texas Legislative Assembly takes 30 days, but Abbott can renew a special session call as he wishes. In accordance with the new rules adopted in 2021, each deputy will be fined $ 500 per day for each day they escape from the state.
Democratic -led states promised to respond if they are moving with Texas plans.
In the early hours of Monday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said he was investigating “every option” to redress the state congress lines.
“I am tired [of] He tied this fight with my hand, Hou Hochul said at a press conference with six Texas Democrats who fled to his state.
“We are in war,” he added. “That’s why the gloves are closed – and I bring him.”
