By Black Star News
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The racially rigged Congressional maps, that Texas just passed, has precipitated what some are calling a “redistricting arms race.”
The Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a new plan which “argues that the only solution to ending this arms race is a federal law that commits all states to fair redistricting standards that ban partisan and racial gerrymandering and include quantitative measures to hold states accountable.”
However, CAP states that “until Congress acts, CAP is urging states with redistricting commissions to adopt an agreement, or “redistricting treaty,” committing them to set aside their commissions until Congress imposes federal standards that force all states to play fair.”
CAP examines Donald Trump’s motives for pushing for the racially rigged Congressional map in Texas saying, “Trump’s demands for gerrymandering correlate with his record-low approval rating and the rising unpopularity of his policies. This gerrymandering scheme is the president’s attempt to circumvent the will of voters and bolster his party’s odds of winning the 2026 midterm elections and keeping control of the House. Congress and states cannot stand for this and must stand for fairness for all Americans.”
Read the plan: “Trump Ordered Texas to Gerrymander 5 New Republican-Leaning Congressional Districts—This Is How Other States Can Fight Back,” by Neera Tanden, Ben Olinsky, and Greta Bedekovics
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