Opinion - A warning from Texas and Ohio about Republicans' redistricting power-grab
(The Hill) As Chairs of the Democratic Party in Ohio and Texas, we have a warning for the rest of the country: Republicans will do anything they can to stay in power, including subverting basic principles of democracy. Why? Because they don’t respect the voters.
In Texas, because of their radical partisan redistricting, Republicans already hold 25 of the state’s 38 congressional seats (66 percent) even though President Trump only won 52 percent of the popular vote in 2024. But even this extreme gerrymander has not been enough to satisfy the Texas Republican power grabbers. Instead, ignored that redistricting is to be done every ten years and redrew the congressional maps mid-decade, in an effort to take more seats. They even tried to use federal agents to intimidate lawmakers in the course of pushing through their anti-democratic gerrymander.
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Meanwhile, in Ohio, Republicans are planning to force congressional maps on the voters similar to the ones that even the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court rejected seven different times as a violation of the state constitution. That is consistent with Republicans’ long history of ignoring the will of Ohioans.
In 2023 they tried to end majority rule for passing ballot initiatives. They then continued efforts to outlaw abortion after voters overwhelmingly voted to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. And in 2024, they defeated an effort to establish a citizen-led redistricting commission that would take politicians out of the redistricting process. They did this by using deceptive official ballot language that the Republican Party chair bragged was designed to confuse voters.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/opinion-warning-texas-ohio-republicans-174500324.html