A motion to issue arrest warrants for the dozens of Texas Democrat legislators who fled the state Sunday to prevent their Republican colleagues from voting on a congressional redistricting map has been passed by the state’s House of Representatives.
Democrat lawmakers in Texas who have fled in attempts to delay redistricting plans owe the voters their presence, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chuck DeVore said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Mid-decade redistricting is not completely unheard of, and the plan would actually create more “majority minority” districts, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chuck DeVore said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, discussing the Lone Star State’s redistricting proposal.
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) is taking bold action to block what he calls a “brazen and corrupt” power grab by Gov. Gavin Newsom, introducing federal legislation to ban mid-decade redistricting nationwide and protect the integrity of California’s voter-approved Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the arrest of what he called the “Delinquent House Democrats” after the legislators failed to return to the Capitol as ordered on Sunday. The governor ordered Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to “locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is declaring “war” on Republicans over plans in Texas proposing a new congressional map that would likely result in five pickups for the GOP.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is praising Texas Democrats for refusing to vote on a Republican-led redistricting plan that could shift five congressional seats to the GOP, a move that involved fleeing the state to break quorum. His comments come amid a broader effort by Democrats to delegitimize Republican-led election reforms while advancing their own partisan maps in deep blue states.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) complained that the Republican-proposed Texas redistricting maps would draw her out of her own district, calling the plan a “hot mess.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) argued that redistricting by Democrats that was favorable to them in states like Illinois, Oregon, and New Mexico is different from what Republicans are doing with redistricting in Texas
Vice President JD Vance slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attempt to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts to eliminate Republican districts and add Democratic ones, noting that Republicans are already underrepresented in the state’s congressional delegation.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wants to scrap California’s nominally independent redistricting process in favor of a partisan gerrymander for Congress, following in the footsteps of Illinois Gov. J.B. Prizker (D).
California Gov. Gavin Newsom taunted Texas over redrawing its congressional districts, suggesting he would retaliate — though California, with an independent redistricting commission, has no legal way of doing so.
New York Democrats are trying to inflate the city’s share of seats in Congress and of federal funding by keeping illegal aliens in the federal 2030 census.
The New York State Redistricting Commission has voted 9-1 in favor of a Congressional map that will head to the state legislature for a vote.
The DLCC is dumping six figures into the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race, an election that could have considerable consequences for abortion.
The Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s redistricting plan for congressional seats a second time on Tuesday by a unanimous vote, suggesting the justices might have regarded this map as defiance against the Supreme Court’s previous 5-4 decision against a similar map.
A federal court on Tuesday ruled to strike down redistricting maps signed into law by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) in July after the maps failed to create a second majority-black congressional district.
State courts can override state legislatures on congressional redistricting maps, but only to a limited extent, and federal courts can override both, a divided U.S. Supreme Court held.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday ruled that there is no legal mechanism to judge claims of “partisan gerrymandering,” giving the Republican-controlled state legislatures the ultimate authority to draw congressional maps without court intervention.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday that he would investigate Los Angeles over its new City Council districts after a leaked recording suggested some officials wanted to maximize Latino representation and dilute the power of black voters.
Political analysts changed the rating for Texas’s Thirty-Fourth Congressional District in favor of Republican Rep. Mayra Flores, snubbing Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who is also running in the district.
Supreme Cout Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used her second day on the nation’s highest court to make a bizarre “originalist” argument that claimed that since the post-Civil War Amendments were meant to benefit former slaves, they justify “race-conscious” policies.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) leads his long-time colleague Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) in New York’s Twelfth Congressional District Democrat primary race by nine points in the Emerson College poll.
Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Madison Gesiotto Gilbert told Breitbart News that she’s “ready to fight” in Congress for the families in Ohio and the state’s freshly minted Thirteenth Congressional District.
University of Virginia Center for Politics’s analysts identified that the House Republicans are better off with the overall congressional maps following the redistricting process.
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday declined to rule on a lawsuit challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis’s redistricting map, throwing it back to Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal that ruled in favor of the map.
New Hampshire Republicans have launched a “Censure Sununu” petition after the governor vetoed the Republican legislature’s redistricting maps.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has allied himself with Democrats on his state’s redistricting process.
New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Thursday promised to veto another redistricting map proposed by the Republican legislature.
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), proclaiming himself ‘somewhat of an expert’ in being ‘unpopular’ has declared his candidacy for New York’s tenth congressional district.
The Democrats are devastated after failing to gerrymander New York state’s map that would have sliced the Republican delegation in half.
The Republican’s aim of crushing Democrats in the national redistricting battle has been either reduced to a tie or a slight gain.
Former New Mexico Republican Congressman Steve Pearce told Breitbart News this past weekend that the outcome of the redistricting process in the state can affect the next 10-30 plus years after the Democrat-controlled legislature and governor used their position to gerrymander the maps for political gain.
The Florida legislature on Thursday passed the DeSantis-proposed redistricting map to the governor to sign without changes.
‘Screaming’ Florida Democrat lawmakers on Tuesday shut down the state House in protest of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) redistricting map.
Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) claimed on Tuesday the DeSantis-proposed state redistricting map will be rejected in court upon passage by lawmakers.
Republican Conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) slammed New York Assembly Democrats for designing a gerrymandered map that was struck down as unconstitutional on Thursday.
Republicans on Thursday won a huge redistricting lawsuit in New York, which may cost Democrats three to four seats in the U.S. Congress.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday vetoed the state legislature’s congressional map and called for a special session to rectify the standoff with establishment Republicans.
Nevada Democrat Rep. Dina Titus continued to complain she was given the “worst district in the state” after the state’s once-in-a-decade redistricting maps were approved last year.
