With the start of the private legislative session in Texas, keeping pace with the context of the Capitol where KXan examines the draft laws that are discussed, the messages we hear from elected leaders, and how their voices affect all of us.
Austin-While legislators in Texas are restored in a special legislative session, we take a closer look at the controversial plan that Republicans lead to re-drawing the state’s congress maps, also known as “re-dividing the circles.”
Regardless of the state, the re -division of circles is always controversial.
This is because in most cases, the party in power attracts boycott lines to increase the possibilities of his party in securing the largest possible number of seats in Congress.
Why is it controversial this time in Texas?
Well, the maps usually are usually redrawn after the number of the American census, so almost every 10 years. Texas has reactivated the County of Congress in 2021.
This new effort comes in middle In the contract, before the an average renewal elections in the next year, which could again indicate the balance of power in Washington.
The governor of the state, Greg Abbott, said that he added the re -division of the departments into the agenda of the special session due to a letter received from the US Department of Justice, which warned four areas in the areas of Dallas and Houston may be racist.
But this justification contradicts what the leaders of the Republican Party said in the past.
Senator John Hoffman, a Republican of Houston who led the efforts to re -divide the circles in 2021, has repeatedly defended the current maps, describing them as a “blind race.”
Democrats in Texas described the new efforts to draw maps as a trick by President Donald Trump to secure more Congress victories for Republicans in Texas in 2026.
The president, himself, did not deny this when speaking to the correspondents last week. According to a report from Politico, Trump said about Texas, “We are a simple redrawing, we pick up five seats.”
The current map in Texas has been linked to the past four years. A similar legal challenge map is likely to face a similar legal challenge map.