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.
Democrats had prepared for a final show of resistance, with plans to push the senate vote into the early morning hours in a last-ditch attempt to delay passage. But the planned filibuster was thwarted by a procedural motion by Republicans. It now heads to the governor for final approval.
Hope enough MAGA wake up by the time elections roll around. Turn it back on these fucks.
I’m really hoping that the Hispanics that went for Trump have seen enough to snap them out of it.
Isn’t California responding in kind? I also saw a proposal for a redistricted NJ too
Yea, Cali just passed the proposal to send it to the voters for a vote in Nov (or maybe it was Oct?) to override the current mechanism they have (an independent agency that is tasked doing it once a decade) temporarily to respond in kind to Texas
War is on
