Why Alex Padila changed the views of independent redistribution

From Jim NewtonCalmness

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As a Senator of the United States, Alex Padila There is not much personal bet on the congress to redistribute the fight, it is now blurred through Texas, California and potentially other union parts. It is an entire country, the most populated, so that the boundaries of the area do not affect its electorate.

But Padila, a quietly influential member of her party and the Senate, has been invested in the fight for power and advantage in Washington. He is an engaged critic of President Donald Trump. Padila’s attempts to defend immigrants who are at the heart of the life and culture of California, who are in a memorable confrontation earlier this year, when he appeared at a press conference organized by Interior Security Minister Christie Nom, only to be just for it to be for being struggle from federal officers.

The incident was shot on video and stands as one of the Hallmark moments of Trump regime a dubious resort of force As he stamps through US cities, rounding people who look Latin American and deliver them to distant lands.

Padila supports the independent redistribution committees in the past and supports the current structure in California, which has been built to minimize guerrillas in the business drawing business for congressional members and others. But now, since Trump and his allies are working for the play of the nation’s policy, the Fallerato is a supporter of the California suggested answer.

He supports Proposal 50which will appear on a A special election vote in November And they would be redirected to California congress cards to give Democrats an advantage in five more races. This is a direct response to Texas, which, according to Trump’s instructions, approves new maps that attract five places in this country with republican majority.

This is politics, not mathematics, so none of these schemes is stupid. Even if the new cards come into force, actual candidates must run and win, and voters have a way to transfer the best plans. But tilting the majority aims to shape the field for the party that makes the drawing.

In Normal Times, Padila told me this week when we met in his Capitol hill, which is hidden from the Senate floor, he will support the non -partisan committees and this redistribution is held once every 10 years, together with the census. “But these are not normal times. There is too much bet.”

For Padilla, this is about more than voting systems or beauties. It is about climate change, immigration, access to healthcare – the complete panorama of attacks that the Trump administration has conducted and that it intends to maintain by holding the House of Representatives in the average time. This is such an important goal that the administration has made it clear that it is ready to cheat in order to achieve it.

In particular, Padila said, the administration is not trying to do so by shaking its record after its entry in January. Trump and his allies enjoy a rare moment of dominance in the life of the nation possessing the presidency, both chambers of Congress and in fact the Supreme Court, which regularly avoids direct confrontations with the president By giving him what he wants – Even when it stretches the logic and constitutional norms, as it did with abortions and presidential immunity.

Administration can work on his record, Padila said, but this record is, By any measure, deeply unpopularS Most voters object to the essence of Trump’s signature legislation, his so -called great beautiful bill, with his abbreviations of medical and health services To pay for tax reduction for the very wealthy.

And voters also registered their discomfort from Trump’s militarized vacations through US cities, starting from Los Angeles to deport gardeners and nannies and other working men and women under the guise of targeting dangerous criminals. This week39% of voters say they approve of Trump’s work, compared to 57%, which they do not approve, the largest point of his presidency. And of Trump Latinos SupportWhich surprised many analysts during the election, it falls.

This leaves Trump and his allies in labor, spores Padila.

“The only hope that they should remain in power after the average time is to install them,” he said.

This touched the speed of redistribution, First from Texas and then from othersS Padila said he was convinced that the impetus would not stop with Texas, and that necessitated the California reaction. In any case, he said, if liberal countries have any hope of behaving against conservative line drawing.

Emphasizing this moment, today the Senator introduces a new bill, the Law on the Redistribution of the Reform of 2025. It would prevent the conditions from redistributing the middle of decades, unless it was located by the court, and this would require states to set up an independent redistribution committee in order to control the preparations of the Congress. This will put an end to the arms race, but it will surely attract opposition-what to go anywhere in a controlled republican congress, as this will be redistributed away from the legislative authorities and governors who wish to use it for the Gerimander lines.

Immigration circles prompted Padila to appear at the Num’s press conference in Los Angeles in June. When he tried to ask a question, the FBI agents dealt with him on the ground. She claims that she felt threatened with him, but the videos of the incident became clear that he had never approached. In the end, he is a senator of the United States, asking a question from a cabinet officer for whom he was managed and detained.

Rejecting the incident a few days later, Vice President J. I have known Padila for a long time, since his days as a member of the Los Angeles Municipal Council. It is clear how much the confrontation with Nov and the disrespect of Vance has been affected.

And so partisanism, the investment, the smuggling that Trump has brought to the White House continues to erode his efforts moderately. Now it forces the Democrats, including the Padila, in an awkward position: do they stand up to the non -partisan district committees and let Trump put the system in Texas and elsewhere, or are they moving to its level and the Jimmy regions in the United States?

I suggested to the Padila that the old maxim “two mistakes do not make right” could be appropriate here. He politely disagreed.

“Two mistakes do not necessarily make a right,” he admitted, “but in this case one can be catastrophic wrong.”

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