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Texas Democrats issued an ultimatum to Republican leadership, threatening to derail the Legislature’s special session if they prioritize redistricting over urgent flood relief.
In an interview with Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias, Holder described the changes to his old department under Attorney General Pam Bondi’s leadership.
Much of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order has been blocked by judges. But it’s having an impact nonetheless — by encouraging and emboldening state-level Republicans to pursue its anti-democratic goals.
With Texas set to begin a special session that includes drawing a new congressional map next week, national Democrats say they’re exploring ways to stop the Republican plan.
Days after saying it needed to redistrict because of constitutional concerns raised about its congressional map by the U.S. Department of Justice, Texas argued in a new court filing Saturday that those concerns are in fact off base.
Texas said it plans to redraw its congressional map, citing a claim by the U.S. Department of Justice that the current map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. But the state lawmaker who drew those maps said just last month that she didn’t consider race in the process.
The Texas Legislature will redraw its congressional maps beginning this summer, after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced he added mid-decade redistricting to the state’s upcoming special session agenda.
Officials in one of Texas’ largest counties voted Tuesday to hire a national right-wing law firm to defend its own gerrymandered map, which was produced by the firm and approved by Republicans last month.
The GOP proof of citizenship bill that passed the House remains stuck in the Senate. And now Texas — often a testing ground for right-wing legislation — is the latest to reject a state-level version of the bill.
A group of minority voters in Tarrant County, Texas filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday accusing local Republicans of racial gerrymandering, a day after GOP leaders approved a new map designed to shrink the voting power of Black and brown residents.
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