Congressional Black Caucus on Tuesday condemning Republicans’ redistribution efforts as a “racist” program, threatening seats CBC Member of parliament.
Black Democratic legislators, many of whom represent the House area, have Republican-majority state legislatures that have redrawn the congressional map, said they intend to fight the map in the court and protest in the streets.
Rep. Yvette Clarke New YorkThe Caucus chair told reporters at a press conference on Capitol Hill that the CBC could lose key seats if the court maintained these “racial maps”, “which would undermine progress over decades of ensuring equitable representation for our community.”
“Their strategy clearly diluted the voting ability of the black and brown communities to stick to step down in any way necessary,” she said.
The Missouri House of Representatives approved a new congressional line Tuesday, which would create a new Republican tilt zone. Missouri Republicans moved forward after California Democrats proposed a congressional map that was not yet completed, which would further benefit their political parties.
The new Missouri Congress map will divide the Kansas City area held by CBC member Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, an experienced congressman who has been in the seat for 20 years.
“We have an out-of-control legislature in Missouri … We are in a moment of trying to put this country in the 1950s and they are trying to turn the direction of the country,” Mr. Cleaver said. “I grew up in the South. It was one of the ugliest moments I’ve seen and felt in my life.”
Section 2 of the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits discriminatory voting procedures based on race, color or membership, including minority dilution.
The Republican-controlled legislature in Texas launched the latest round of re-division a month ago, when it drew a picture designed to provide Republicans with better opportunities to represent regions with Democratic representation.
The new Texas map relies heavily on Hispanic support from Republicans in 2024 in mid-2026.
Mr Green and two CBC members, Mr Veasey, said it was necessary to convene Republican motives for racism to win a separate voting right bill lawsuit currently in front of the Supreme Court.
CBC members are watching how the case involves a majority of Louisiana districts, a challenge to the constitutionality of Section 2.
It may affect most and minority areas across the country.
“We shouldn’t think that when you know if you want to win this lawsuit, we shouldn’t allow language to become a barrier when you have to say racism,” Green said. “If you don’t say racism, we won’t win because the second part of the Voting Rights Act is to protect racial minorities.”
Mr Vassi said the Republican efforts were “they’ve taken a racist plan nationwide, simple and straightforward.”
Mr. Veasey said the White House is trying to “rig map” because the recent tax cuts passed by the Republican Party have not received support from the American people.
“Nothing. It’s racist. It will strip black and brown voters everywhere from the rights because Republicans know this huge and ugly bill is not popular.”
“No one did a decade of rezoning in the late 1700s, no one did it in the 1800s, no one did it in the early 1900s. [Former Rep. Tom DeLay] First of all, Trump is doing it now. ” he said.
The re-division of Congress in the past decade actually has a relatively long history.
According to the Congressional Research Service, it was not uncommon for a decade to parliament to re-division in the 19th century, but rarely occurred in the 20th century.
In 1804 and 1808, New York The Drew Congress Line has nothing to do with any population changes. Some experts re-draw this repeatedly drawn Congress map as the first example of a mid-term re-division.
A study cited by the CRS found that at least one state re-extended the congressional boundaries every year between 1872 and 1896.
Ohio, for example, demarcated the borders of the congressional district seven times between 1878 and 1892, and held five consecutive House elections under different regional maps.
