ASAN (KXAN) – Many legislators in Texas left the state on Sunday to prevent voting on Monday on the re -drawn congressional maps designed to add five republican seats in the US House of Representatives.
At least 51 representatives of the Democratic State chose to leave Texas on Sunday. Some of these legislators said they went to New York, and others went to Illinois. The governors of those countries mentioned their support for work.
The head of the Democratic Party in Texas Kendall Scuder issued a statement on Sunday to support the quorum breakers. In this, he said that the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, was “retaining disaster proof to steal five seats in Congress” under the orders of President Donald Trump.
In June, Trump met many Republicans in Texas. He publicly said that he wanted Texas to create five new Republican seats.
“Greg Abbott only told the survivors of the floods throughout Texas that their suffering comes second after Donald Trump thirsts for power … This is not governed, this is without hardship.” “Your right to act in your government is being attacked, and the Democrats in Texas will protect your rights through any necessary means.”
The lawsuit places the legislative chamber on a dead end, where the bases of the House of Representatives require the presence of two-thirds of 150-at least 100 representatives. Since absence is not excused, every legislator has left Texas to a fine of $ 500 a day.
It is still only 12 days in the private session.
Democrats in Texas say why they leave
In a statement, Jane Woo, Speaker of the House of Representatives in Texas. He also criticized the decision of Greg Abbott to include the re -division of circles along with the recent floods in the issues of the session called.
“The ruler has turned the victims of a historical tragedy into political hostages in his submission to Donald Trump,” Wu said in a statement. “He uses a racist map intentionally to steal the voices of millions of black and Latin Texas, and all of them to implement a corrupt political deal. Indifference is collusion, and we will not sympathize with the silence of the societies that work hard and that spent decades in the fight for the power that Trump wants to steal.”
Other Democrats made statements on Sunday about their decision to break the quorum.
Representative Ann Johnson, de Huston
Johnson said: “The ruler does not need here to help dumping the survivors – he needs us here to pass the Donald Trump’s political agenda,” Johnson said. “We have reached a line that I will not cross. Abbut’s map is a direct attack on our constitution. If we are not ready to put ourselves in the way of that, we should not be here.”
Representative James Talarico, Mount Austin
“This is the mold at the heart of our broken political system,” said Talarico. “We usually re -communicate at the beginning of the contract after a new census. But Trump and Texas Republicans are trying to redraw these maps in the middle of the nodes to manipulate the mid -period 2026.”
He looks like two football teams coming out of the treasury room at the end of the first half, and the team that extends forward changes the rules of the game to ensure their victory. It is cheating. Normal and simple.
Representative James Talarico
“We may not be in the Capitol, but we are making our functions. We may not be in Texas, but we are fighting for our voters,” his statement still not only fighting for the Democrats – we are fighting for independents and Republicans as well. Because in democracy, he is supposed to choose political voters, not the other way. “
Representative John Pucci III, Austin
“This session should revolve around Texas’s help to recover – Donald Trump does not help gain power,” Pucci said. “If the ruler Abbott will try to redraw the maps quietly while families still clean the houses that were flooded with the floods, we will harm them.”
Republicans invite the arrest of legislators
Ken Buckston, Prosecutor of Texas, said x The quorum cutters should be arrested.
The rules of the legislative body require the sergeant in the House of Representatives to arrest and secure the absent members to attend. This procedure can only be done after the Texas house determined that the quorum was not met due to the unusual absence.
The Speaker of Parliament Dustin Buroz said x “All options were on the table” if the house did not make the quorum at 3:00 pm on Monday.
However, the Service Authority in the weapons does not extend outside Texas, Representative Brent Moni He said on July 30.
“This is not theoretically-it was used in 2003 and again in 2021,” Moni said. “If members fled from the state for a long time, the ruler has the constitutional authority to declare their seats vacant under the Texas election law. This would reduce the quorum threshold and allow the council to act.”
In his statement, the money did not explain how time the “extended period” extends.
Representative Nate Chatezlin repeated the money statement on Sunday, hours after reaching x The re -drawing map draws the American Democratic Residence Yasmine Crocate from its region.
Representative Jeff Leach She replied to JohnsonHe said he was “trusted and respected and worked well.” The two are the president and the joint head of the Judicial Committee in the House of Representatives.
“If she chooses to flee the state and cries its responsibilities and duties towards its voters and to the people of Texas, it should be immediately stripped of its presidency,” Leich said.
MP Jared Patterson also called for arrests, but he showed a spark for creativity – In a publicationAbbott called for exploring the re -division of seats in Texas for a house seats to increase the establishment of one party’s base in the state.
“[Abbott] It reserves the right to add elements to the private session call, including the re -division of seats in Texas. If all options are on the table, all options should be explored. “
Abbott has not yet commented on the situation.
Voice Support for National Democrats
“President Trump and the Republicans have long participated in” falsifying the regime, breaking the rules, and planning to adhere to power. ” He also said that Republican lawmakers were trying to restore the “enriching a handful of elites.”
Martin said: “For weeks, we warned that if the Republicans in Texas want to obtain a confrontation – if they want to delay relief from floods to protect Donald Trump brilliantly from the mid -time of the indifferent period – we will provide them with this confrontation.” “This is exactly what Democrats did in Texas today: the bombing of the Special Republicans’ session that was actually ignored the plight of flood victims in Kiir Province.”
He added that DNC was “proud to support these legislators in standing and showing real leadership.”
Martin added: “Republicans thought they could only manipulate maps and change the rules without noticing the American people. They were wrong,” Martin added. “After completing this battle, we come a full force for the majority of the Republican Council.”