Texas legislators grant the final approval to the Map of the Rounded Congress backed by the Republican Party, sending the governor

Austin, Texas (AP)-Texas Senate gave the final approval to a new voting map of the Republican inclination Congress on early Saturday, sending it to Governor Greg Abbott for his firm.

ABBOTT, a Republican, is expected to firm quickly, although the Democrats have promised to question it in court.

The effort of the Trump and Texas Republican majority legislature led the state democrats to carry out a two -week strike and began a wave of redistribution efforts of districts throughout the country.

The Democrats had prepared for a final resistance sample, with plans to take the vote of the Senate at the morning hours in a last attempt to delay the passage.

State Senator Carol Alvarado, leader of the Senate’s democratic caucus, announced on the social networks that Filibuster planned the bill with a long speech and intended to speak for several hours. But just when he expected to start, the Senate broke for a long dinner.

When the members returned, Alvarado never had the opportunity for filibusters because the Republicans accused her of breaking the rules of the Senate when trying to raise funds in the next filibuster.

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Senator Charles Perry said that “it seems to be potentially illegal, at least not very ethical, using state resources for a campaign purpose.”

A Alvarado spokesman did not immediately respond to an email and a phone call from News.

“Closing a filibuster for a fundraising collection email is not precedents,” said Democratic Senator Sarah Eckhardt in a publication on the Social Network Platform X. “It exposes the hypocrisy of the Republicans, who will change and collect millions of votes of the Texans while silencing their voices.”

The confrontation of weeks has traveled the Texas Legislature, marked by a democratic strike and arrest threats of the Republicans. Much of the drama took place in the house, where the map finally spent Wednesday.

The Democrats had already delayed the approval of the bill during hours of debate, pressing the Republican Senator Phil King, the sponsor of the measure, on the legality of the proposal, and many claim that the drags drafted violate the Voting Rights Law by diluting the influence of voters based on the breed.

King vehemently denied that accusation, saying: “I had two goals in mind: that all maps would be legal and it would be better for the republican candidates of Congress in Texas.”

“There is an extreme risk that the republican majority be lost” in the camera if the map does not happen, King said.

The confrontation has also inflamed a battle of redistribution of the broader districts of the State by state, with governors of both parties committed to re -drawing Maps of the Congress.

California Democrats approved the legislation on Thursday that they ask for a special choice in November so that residents vote on a map of the redibrated congress designed to help Democrats win five more seats in the house of the house next year. Governor Gavin Newsom signed it quickly.

“This is not something six weeks ago that I imagined I would be doing,” said Newsom. “This is a reaction to an assault on our democracy in Texas.”

California’s map needs the approval of voters because, unlike Texas, a non -partisan commission normally draws the map to avoid the type of political battle that is being developed.

On Friday, Abbott described the redistribution of California districts “to Joke” and said that the new Texas map is constitutional, but California would be revoked.

Battle for the house delivered through the redistribution of districts

Nationally, the partisan composition of the existing districts places the Democrats in three seats of the majority. The starting party usually loses seats in partial exams.

The Texas Redibujado is already remodeling the 2026 race, with Democratic representative Lloyd Doggett, the dean of the Delegation of the State Congress, announcing on Thursday that he will not seek the re -election of his seat based in Austin if the new map enters into force. Under the proposed map, the Doggett district overlapped that of another Democratic headline, representative Greg Casar.

The president has pressed other states controlled by Republicans, including Indiana and Missouri, so that they also review their maps to add more republican seats that can be made. Ohio’s Republicans were also scheduled to review their maps to make them more partisans.

“Republicans have not ended in the United States,” said Abbott.

The redistribution of districts generally occurs once per decade, immediately after a census. While some states have their own limitations, there is no national impediment for a State that tries to redraw districts in the mid -decade.

The Supreme Court of the United States has said that the Constitution does not prohibit Gerrymandering, only using the lines of the District of the Race to draw again.

‘Fight against fire with fire’

More states of Democratic Administration have commission systems such as California or other limits of redistribution of districts than Republicans, leaving the Republican Party with a freer hand to re -draw the maps. New York, for example, cannot draw new maps until 2028, and even then only with the approval of voters.

The Republicans and some Democrats defended a 2008 voting measure that established the Redistribution Commission of Non -Party Districts of California, together with one of 2010 that extended its role in attracting maps of Congress.

Both parties have shown concern for what the districts redistribution war could drive.

California Assemblyman James Gallagher, the leader of the Republican minority, said Trump was “wrong” to boost the new Republican seats in other places. But he warned that the Newsom approach, which the governor has called “Fight Fire With Fire”, is dangerous.

“You advance fighting against fire with fire, and what happens?” Gallagher asked. “You burn everything.”

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Cappelletti reported from Washington and Golden from Seattle.