While the Missouri Democrats organize demonstrations and push the Republican leaders to engage with them, it seems that the Republicans of the Missouri State House will finally be able to pass the cards of the District of the redrawn Congress this week, losing to pressure from the Trump administration.
Two weeks ago, Missouri’s Republican Governor Mike Kehoe unveiled the new Congress card – which he called a “Missouri First” card, Maga – and asked for a special session for the card to be approved. If it is approved, the proposed map would radically change the congress district which is currently in the Kansas City region of Missouri, which was represented by the Democratic representative Emanuel Cleaver – who was also the first black mayor of Kansas City – for years. The map would essentially share a part of the city and add a rural territory to this district, by modifying its contours so that seven of the eight districts of the American Missouri house promote the Republicans.
All this is part of President Trump’s efforts to force the legislatures of the red states where the Republicans have supermajeures to redraw their cards in the middle of the cycle so that the Republicans have a better chance of keeping the American house in the mid-term of 2026. As a rule, the state legislators or the independent redistribution commissions bring back the cards of the state convention American, rather than engaging in mid-Decennia, a gerrymandering very partisan of the genus that Trump is encouraging to maintain his hand on the federal government (and avoid avoiding democrats of investigation and supervision of democrats in the chamber).
While republican members of the Chamber of State argue that the card was fired by members of staff from the Governor’s office, the Democrats argued that the card was probably fired by the White House. They expressed these beliefs when the card was elected from the State House committees last week.
“I think that everyone who looks really understand that the people who drew these cards are seated in DC,” the representative of the Democratic State, Ashley Aune, a minority leader at the State House on Thursday. “It’s ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.”
No matter where the card was drawn, it is clear that the white house pressure campaign had a considerable impact in the Missouri. In 2022, there was a certain interest in trying to redraw the lines of the Cleaver district, but the Republicans of the State Chamber and the Senate rejected the measure, saying that it could turn against him. There would still be a certain concern among the Republicans who support the redesigned map of the same problem this time. PER ST. Louis NPR STLPR station:
The decision to advance the Deaton bill is a reversal of 2022, when many Republicans in the House and the Senate rejected a card targeting Cleaver. Some GOP legislators have said that such a plan could turn against him and make the districts of Alford and Graves more competitive. And even the Republicans who support the plan now adopt that the new version of the district of Cleaver, which links Kansas City to a number of rural counties, could be Fordemocrats winning in a bad electoral year for the GOP.
After the card was moved from the committee last week, a handful of democratic members of the State Chamber spent the weekend leading a sit-in in the chamber of the Capitol de la Capitol de la State both to protest the measure and to try to force the Republican leaders to listen to their concerns concerning the redeveloping card, which the state chamber spent on Monday afternoon. He should vote and adopt the measure at the start of this week.
“Republican legislators, at the request of Donald Trump, push through a Gerrymander in the middle of the cycle that cuts Kansas City and silenced the votes of thousands of Missourians,” said democratic state representative Ray Reed Friday before spending the weekend at State House. “They refused to recognize us on the ground, violated the rules intended to protect the debate, then to leave for the weekend – while we stayed in place. We have chosen to hold the ground because the inhabitants of the Missouri deserve better than a map designed to anchor the power to the detriment of their voice. ”
“Our sit-in is not an act of challenge for the concern for challenge. It is an act of faith. Faith in the idea that democracy belongs to everyone. Faith in the idea that when people see what is done on their behalf, they will not remain silent. Faith in the long arch of history, which complies with justice only when we help to fold it, “he continued.
Local officials of Chicago not seeing the kind of repression
After the President published a photo of false cartoon of himself declaring war in Chicago and his population of immigrants over the weekend, the Ministry of Internal Security published a statement on Midway Blitz on Monday as the name of his efforts to arrest a lot of undocumented immigrants in the city in the coming days and weeks.
“This ice operation will target the illegal criminal foreigners who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to walk freely in the American streets,” said the DHS statement on MS on on on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on MS on on American
There are reports that the Trump administration plans to stage the operation from a naval base outside of Chicago. On Monday, local officials told the New York Times that they had only seen a few arrests so far. By time:
Local officials and immigrant defenders said residents seemed to prepare for arrests, but that few had been observed on Monday morning. On Sunday, at least three people were arrested in the southwest of Chicago, according to the coalition of Illinois for the rights of immigrants and refugees, which closely follows the activity of application of immigration.
And it seems that those who have been arrested do not have exactly the kind of confusing criminal record that the Trump administration described in its plans.
“They are targeting people who work hard in the community. … At this point, everyone is a target,” said the member of the municipal council of Chicago, Jeylú B. Guérrez, in Times.
Meanwhile in Los Angeles
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration today by granting an emergency call which raises the prohibition order of an American district judge who blocked ice agents in Los Angeles to arrest and hold people on the streets on the basis of what they look like, the language they speak and where they work.
In a vote of 6-3 with all the dissident liberal judges, the High Court allowed immigration agents to continue to carry out “traveling patrols” in Los Angeles, which means that they can stop and hold any person they suspect of being in the country illegally.
By the Times:
Although Monday’s order is not a final decision, it strongly points out that the Supreme Court will not maintain strict limits on the authority of immigration agents to arrest people for interrogation.
The conservatives of the Court have made an unsigned ordinance which indefinitely freezes the prohibition order of the district judge and releases immigration agents. In practice, it gives immigration agents a large authority to stop people who, they believe, can be here illegally.
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