The Texas senate has given final approval to a redrawn congressional map that gives Republicans a chance to pick up as many as five congressional seats, fulfilling a brazen political request from Donald Trump to shore up the GOP’s standing before next year’s midterm elections.
It will now be sent to governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, who is expected to quickly sign it into law, however Democrats have vowed to challenge it in court. The Texas house of representatives approved the map on Wednesday on an 88-52 party-line vote, before the senate approved it early on Saturday.
The effort by Trump and Texas’ Republican-majority Legislature prompted state Democrats to hold a two-week walkout and kicked off a wave of redistricting efforts across the country.
It doesn’t favor Republicans, The Guardian. It actively disenfranchises non-Republicans. It is the public and open theft of democracy.
What’s pissed me off the most in all this is the fascists getting on their high horse when the Democrats left the state. Acting like they were trying to accomplish some sort of good deed and the Democrats were preventing that. Just admit that this is naked voter suppression! They didn’t even have the decency to wait for a redistricting year.
I wish the Texas Democrats would have left and forced their arrests just get it over with im tired of pretending.
They should never have gone back. We knew this was going to happen the moment they did.
