For more on the politics of the redistricting fight, we're joined now by our Politics Monday duo.

That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

It's great to see you both.

Hello, good to be here.

So the Texas House of Representatives reached a quorum today after Democrats returned, ending their two-week standoff,

now paving the way for Republicans to pass these congressional maps that could net the GOP as many as five seats.

Democrats are claiming a moral victory because they elevated this issue to a national platform.

Is that enough a moral victory versus an actual victory?

Well, they don't have the numbers to be able to have an actual victory here.

The only victory they can get is a moral

victory. And certainly they have raised the profile of this as an issue. The state of California

is now moving forward with trying to get a ballot measure that would change their maps, at least

temporarily. That is a direct reaction to what's happening in Texas. So certainly people are

talking about this mid mid course redistricting in a way that they weren't before. If it had

sort of been slammed through the likelihood is that it would have been maybe a new cycle or two.

And now it's been a couple of weeks.

Tam mentioned California. What do those maps look like and what hoops need to be surmounted?

There are many more hoops. Now, obviously, Texas had the hoops. They had to have a quorum.

But now that that's done, it's much easier to get those maps done. In California, they do want to put this onto the ballot. So this would be a special election to vote specifically on changing the current law, which says that an independent

redistricting commission draws the lines. Here, they would say because, and literally, we haven't

seen the language yet, but the language would look something like, we're only doing this because of what Republicans did in Texas.

This will be short term, only last through 2030, which is the next redistricting year.

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