Washington – Some Republicans who represent the competitive districts in the blue states are talking against the impulse of their party to draw again the lines of Congress in Texas in an attempt to give the Republican party up to five more seats of the camera.
The representatives Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., And Mike Lawler, RN.Y., have called to impose national limits on partisan gerrymandering, a rare movement for Republicans in Washington who have frustrated the prohibitions proposed for years.
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Democratic governors such as Gavin Newsom of California and Kathy Hochul in New York have threatened to retaliate against Texas by looking for their own redistribution plans of districts that could eliminate the swing districts resistant to the Republican Party, as those representing Lawler and Kiley.
Kiley announced that he will present the legislation on Tuesday to annul that the states of the new chamber maps adopt before the 2030 census, including what can be approved this year.
That would block the ongoing effort of Texas and any possible impulse in California, said his office.
“Gavin Newsom is trying to subvert the will of the voters and harm democracy in California,” Kiley said in a statement on Monday. “Fortunately, Congress has the ability to protect California voters using their authority under the electoral clause of the United States Constitution. This will also prevent a war of redistribution of harmful districts from exploding throughout the country.”
Lawler, a second -term republican partner who represents a swing district, also said he will introduce legislation to prohibit Gerrymandering in each state.
“Gerrymandering is wrong and must be prohibited everywhere, even in New York, Texas, California and Illinois. I am presenting legislation to prohibit it,” Lawler said Monday in X, inviting the Democrats to sign.
Even so, it is unlikely that the republican leaders of the Chamber allow a vote on any legislation to limit the redistribution of partisan districts. That would be a change in long -date vision of the party that Washington should not impose such limits on states. The Mike Johnson speaker’s office, Republican of La-La., Did not immediately comment on the idea.
Speaking to journalists recently in El Capitol, representative Richard Hudson, RN.C., president of the campaign operation of the Republicans of the House of Representatives, maintained his distance from the thrust of Texas and did not say if he supports it.
“Well, it depends on the United States. I mean, I have nothing to do with that. I learned when everyone wrote about that,” said Hudson. When asked if he is worried about California’s reprisals, he replied: “I’m not worried. Some of the states can do what they want to do.”
Newsom has mounted an aggressive impulse in recent days, in podcasts and social networks, to generate support to eliminate the Redistribution Commission of California districts and allow the democratic legislature of the supermayness of the State to draw its own maps for the districts of the houses. He even published a user’s hypothetical suggestion again to create an extremely Gerrymandro map with 52 democratic seats, which would eliminate the nine Republicans who currently represent California, including Kiley.
And the Democrats in Washington have tried to approve legislation to prohibit partisan Gerrymandering, part of them in recent years during the Biden administration. A section of the scanning law for the 2021 people would have required all states to establish redistribution commissions of independent districts with a balanced partisan representation. The Democrats approved him in the House of Representatives in the party lines during the Biden Administration, but a different version of the bill failed to overcome a republican filibuster of the Senate.
Fighting to recover the majority and become a speaker, the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., has focused his focus on fighting the efforts of the Republican Party in Texas in recent weeks. In Capitol Hill, Jeffries met privately with members of the Delegation of the California Congress to discuss options to respond to Texas Republicans, a Democratic legislator said.
Last week, Jeffries traveled to the Capitol of the State of Texas in Austin to meet with the Democrats both in the Delegation of Congress and in the State House to draw attention to the matter. He said that Texas’ special legislative session should have focused on fixing the broken energy network of the State and “relief, recovery and resistance” following mortal floods in the country of the hill.
“Donald Trump ordered Greg Abbott and that Texas Republicans comply with Austin have a special session to manipulate the Map of Congress and undermine the ability of Texans to have a half -free and fair period choice.
“It’s a moment of all hands on the deck, and all options should be on the table to protect the people of Texas,” he continued. “We will fight them politically. We will fight against them governmentally. We will fight against them. We will fight against them in terms of winning the hearts and minds of the people of Texas and beyond.”
Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
“I hate what Texas is doing. But they are going to do it, of course we have to defend themselves,” Murphy told NBC News. “Democracies die when the regime plays outside the box and the opposition decides to stay inside the box. So, as the rules change, we cannot cry for that. We have to fight against fire with fire.”
Another Democrat, the representative Mark Takano of California, who will become president of the Veterans Affairs Committee again if the Democrats recover the camera next year, said he trusts that the voters of California would have their backs from the Democrats if they pursue the redistribution of districts in the mid -decade.
“California voters are quite clear that … not only California, but the future of our country, Donald Trump has no check about him,” Takano said. “I think California is very interested in seeing a check in the power of Donald Trump; he is voracious. He does not see any limit to himself. Everything is very personal for him, and it is, frankly, simply corrupt.”
