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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans Are Passing Rigged Maps and Democrats Are Running Out of Time to Stop It
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/republicans-are-passing-rigged-maps-and-democrats-are-running-out-of-time-to-stop-it/It took Texas Republicans less than 30 days to pass redistricting maps for Congress and the state legislature that will help them retake the US House in 2022 and entrench control of state politics for the next decade. Meanwhile, its been 230 days since the House of Representatives passed federal legislationthe For the People Actthat would roll back the gerrymandering and voter suppression enacted by GOP-controlled states such as Texas, but the Senate has taken no action to protect voting rights while Republican-dominated states relentlessly undermine them.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has scheduled a vote on his partys new voting rights bill, the Freedom to Vote Act, for Wednesday but there is still no plan for overcoming a GOP filibuster to pass it. To understand the high costs of inaction, look no further than Texas.
One month after passing one of the countrys worst voter suppression laws, Texas Republicans enacted new redistricting maps that lock in power for white Republicans by denying fair representation to communities of color.
The partisan effects of the map are achieved by discriminating against communities of color.
Ninety-five percent of the states population growth in the last decade came from communities of color, but, in an astonishingly brazen effort to forestall these demographic changes, the new redistricting maps for the state legislature and US House increase the number of districts with white majoritiesoverwhelmingly held by Republicansand decrease the number of districts with Hispanic and Black majorities.
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Republicans Are Passing Rigged Maps and Democrats Are Running Out of Time to Stop It (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2021
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aocommunalpunch
(4,232 posts)1. Why can't our dealmakers make deals?
Same old same old.
ColinC
(8,277 posts)2. I mean have you seen Illinois latest draft? Also pretty sure repugs will be lucky to have one
Or two seats in NY after next year.
brooklynite
(94,294 posts)3. Not clear how Federal legislation will affect State redistricting efforts.
dsc
(52,147 posts)4. they can ban gerrymandering
that is in their power and gerrymandering is mathematically measurable.
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GoodRaisin
(8,905 posts)6. Have to challenge these maps in the courts.
Thats about all we can do until we have a strong Federal law banning it. And, even that will be challenged.
Its a daily war of battles we just have to keep fighting.