Tarrant County Texas to consider the new drawing borders

Tarrant County, Texas – The Tarrant County Commissioner’s court will consider after a agenda item for the exam on Wednesday to re -draw its borders before the 2026 elections. The democratic commissioner Alisa Simmons says the step violates the federal law.

“Every Tarrant County voter and taxpayer is misused by these efforts,” said Simmons in a statement.

The Commissioner Court will consider, with the legal foundation of public interests, a non-profit organization based in Virginia to record the conclusion of the contract in order to obtain “advisory and advisory services for redistribution for district commissioners”, according to the agenda item. The scope of the services includes the provision of legal advice, drawing potential maps and the discussion of the potential introduction of a new card.

According to the agreement, the district would pay up to 30,000 US dollars in exchange for services. The Commissioner Court consists of four commissioners elected by their district and a district judge who is elected by the district as a whole.

The commissioners meet on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Tarrant County Administration Building.

As a rule, the district is undergoing every 10 years when official census data are published, which corresponds to both with the US Congress, the state legislator and other local government companies.

In 2021, Tarrant County organized six public inputs and merged with Bickstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP to inform the redistribution process.

The court is currently being headed by three Republicans, district judge Tim O’Hare, Manny Ramirez and Matt Krause. Ramirez and Krause represent the northern half of the district, including parts of Fort Worth and Mid-Cities suburbs.

In an explanation, Ramirez said that he was to check Tarrant County’s district map and said that the redistribution in a statement was “very political”.

“I believe that I have the moral obligation to make everything legally permissible to ensure that our district continues to enjoy responsible conservative leadership,” said Ramirez. “Vote outrage by those whose party has systematically switched the two largest counties in our state in the past ten years.”

Two Democrats, Simmons and Rodrick Miles, represent districts 1 and 2 in the southern part of the county, including parts of Fort Worth, Arlington and Grand Prairie. Both districts are majority reduce districts, and both Simmons and miles are black.

Simmons, which is available in addition to O’Hare and Ramirez in 2026, calls the proposed redistribution “racist gerryminging”. Simmons represents district 2, which was represented by Republicans until 2019. Simmons has routinely teamed up because of a variety of topics with O’Hare.

“I will not be ready while extremists try to reduce fair elections in Tarrant County,” said Simmons in an explanation. “This obvious attempt to give racist gerryming ring would water the voting authority of colored in districts 1 and 2 and threaten to eliminate a – if not two – in which minority voters have consistently chosen candidates of their choice.”

Chris Turner, the MP of Texas, D-Grand Prairie, also made an explanation that spoke out against the proposed redistribution.

“A redistribution in the middle of the decades is a completely unnecessary, stupid endeavor that Tarrant County taxpayers will undoubtedly suspend costly legal disputes,” said Turner.

According to the organization’s website, the legal foundation of public interests is a non -profit organization that is dedicated to combating the fraud of voters together with their revolutionary data -controlled legal disputes.

The President and General Counsel of the Organization, J. Christian Adams, is a former lawyer of the Ministry of Justice, who was appointed to the United States Commission for Civil Rights in 2020 and, according to his biography, wrote a book for the Obama government on the foundation’s website.

The organization represented Galveston County after the Ministry of Justice claimed that the district commissioners’ court had violated the law on voting rights by eliminating the only district of the minority championship in the district. In 2024, the Court of Appeal decided the fifth circles in favor of Galveston County.

The GOP of Tarrant County supports the proposed redistribution, the party said in its weekly newsletter, as was reported from the Fort Worth Star Telegelegram.

“There are two democratic commissioners and two Republican commissioners because decades ago an obvious Grymandering that was never corrected,” said the newsletter according to the star telegram.

Tarrant County was recently seen as a “Lila County”, who often fluctuates between the election of the democratic and Republican candidate for President and Senator. Most recently, 51.8% of Tarrant County Donald Trump’s voters supported the president. Four years earlier, Joe Biden won the district with 49.3% of the votes.