Overview

• The Texas Legislature’s Republican leadership advanced a proposed mid-decade congressional map in committee that seeks to create five new GOP-leaning districts.
• Over 50 Texas House Democrats have departed the state to Illinois to deny a quorum and block the full-chamber vote on the redistricting plan.
• Republican leaders have issued civil arrest warrants for absent Democrats and filed petitions seeking to vacate their seats as the Justice Department reviews the plan for potential racial gerrymandering.
• On The Will Cain Show, Rep. James Talarico pressed the host on why Republicans oppose a nationwide ban on gerrymandering when all Democrats voted for such measures and no Republicans joined them.
• Talarico highlighted that Massachusetts’ 9-0 Democratic delegation map was approved by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker to counter GOP claims of unfair partisan drawing.