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(NewsNation) — Nearly 2 weeks aft breaking quorum and leaving the authorities implicit mid-decade redistricting, Texas Democrats are acceptable to soon instrumentality home.
The lawmakers announced they volition instrumentality connected 2 conditions: if Texas Republicans extremity a special legislative session aimed astatine securing 5 further House seats for President Donald Trump, and if California releases its own redistricting proposal.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked voters to let state officials to redraw legislature maps alternatively than the autarkic committee that presently handles the task.
He announced Thursday that, if Texas moves guardant with its redistricting connection and costs Democrats 5 House seats, California volition travel suit and effort to crook 5 of its 9 Republican seats blue.
Newsom said helium wants to clasp a peculiar predetermination Nov. 4. Right now, the authorities has an autarkic redistricting commission, thing a bulk (64%) of Californians are supportive of, according to a caller Politico-Citrin Center poll.
Typically, California's legislature maps are redrawn aft a census each 10 years by an autarkic committee. Newsom said this determination to redistrict would beryllium temporary, lone successful effect for 2026, 2028 and 2030 — and vowed the task would beryllium returned to the committee aft the 2030 census.
"We're doing this successful absorption to a president of the United States that called a sitting politician of the authorities of Texas and said, 'Find maine 5 seats.' We're doing it successful absorption to that act," Newsom said, adding that helium refuses to ticker "democracy vanish territory by district" nationally.
While Newsom was holding a rally successful Los Angeles connected Thursday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers showed up extracurricular the building.
Newsom said helium didn't deliberation the instrumentality enforcement beingness was a coincidence, and NewsNation crews witnessed astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic being detained.
Will different states articulation successful redistricting fight?
Several states, astir of which person supermajorities, person besides considered redrawing their electoral maps.
Republicans are seeking to guarantee Trump tin get his docket passed during the 2nd fractional of his term, portion Democrats privation power of the House aft the midterms.
Florida, Illinois, and Missouri are among states considering changing their districts. By law, Ohio indispensable redraw its legislature representation this year.
Political expert and historiographer Rich Rubino called the reactionary redistricting calls a "snowball effect," fueled by changes successful states led by the different majority.
