Particle.news
Download on the App Store
56 ARTICLES
·
3w ago

Texas GOP Redistricting Plan Stalled by Democratic Walkout

Governors of California, New York prepare rival maps, legal challenges against Texas’s stalled redistricting effort.

FILE -Vice President JD Vance listens as President Donald Trump speaks, Aug. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
Mass. Gov. Maura Healey chats about the Trump administration tariffs and the effect on the Mass. economy on April 9. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)
FILE - Indiana Governor Mike Braun is joined by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, right, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz during a news conference in Indianapolis, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Overview

  • Texas House Republicans’ committee approved a mid-decade map that could add up to five GOP-leaning U.S. House seats if enacted.
  • Texas House Democrats fled the state on August 1 to deny quorum, triggering daily fines of $500 per absent member and arrest warrants ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott.
  • The special session, convened on July 21 and set to expire on August 19, has produced no full House vote after Democrats broke quorum.
  • Vice President JD Vance is urging Indiana Republicans to redraw their map for a stronger GOP advantage and senators Bill Hagerty and Rick Scott have introduced the Equal Representation Act to exclude non-citizens from census apportionment.
  • Governors in California and New York have vowed their own redistricting and voting rights lawsuits to offset Texas’s proposed plan.