The Indiana General Assembly will meet in December to talk about redistricting after all, despite initial resistance from the state Senate.<\/p>\n
Minutes after House Speaker Todd Huston announced plans to still meet on Dec. 1, Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray reversed course from his prior stance and announced the Senate will convene a week later, on Dec. 8, to vote on whatever redistricting proposal the House sends them.<\/p>\n
Just a week earlier, President Donald Trump’s hopes of redistricting Indiana appeared dead when the Senate solidified its intention not to meet in December. Even with the Senate now agreeing to meet, if the votes aren’t there in the Senate, the map can’t be sent to Gov. Mike Braun for his approval.<\/p>\n
“The issue of redrawing Indiana’s congressional maps mid-cycle has received a lot of attention and is causing strife here in our state,” Bray wrote in a statement on Nov. 25. “To resolve this issue, the Senate intends to reconvene as part of the regular 2026 session on Dec. 8 and make a final decision that week on any redistricting proposal sent from the House.”<\/p>\n
Braun had initially\u00a0called in October for a special legislative session\u00a0after months of pressure from the White House,\u00a0including two visits from Vice President JD Vance. Bray\u00a0announced on Nov. 14\u00a0that the chamber wouldn’t reconvene because there weren’t enough “yes” votes to redistrict.<\/p>\n
Most Senate Republicans haven’t shared where they stand publicly on redistricting, but on Organization Day, the ceremonial start to the 2026 legislative session held on Nov. 18,\u00a0a majority of senators voted to support a measure to reconvene in January like normal, rather than earlier to redistrict. Among Republicans, 19 voted in favor of reconvening Jan. 5, and 19 voted against it.<\/p>\n
Still, the Republican-dominated Senate is under immense pressure from Trump to redistrict, and it’s possible some members could still be convinced.<\/p>\n
The House has not yet proposed a new map.<\/p>\n
As the pressure has intensified, so has the nature of it.\u00a0At least seven state senators\u00a0have received some kind of violent threat since Organization Day, including some incidents of swatting, which is when a person calls in a false tip that prompts a large law enforcement response. Even\u00a0Braun has received “credible threats,”\u00a0his office said. A Democratic city councilor has also been the subject of threats since he posted on social media condemning the threats against others.<\/p>\n
There’s also the threat of\u00a0primary challenges against lawmakers\u00a0who vote against redistricting, though only a small handful of them are actually up for reelection in 2026. Trump has openly called for this; at least\u00a0one such challenger has already emerged in Republican state Sen. Spencer Deery’s West Lafayette district.<\/p>\n
Outside interests have been pouring resources into convincing lawmakers to redistrict, from new nonprofit groups to advertising buys from Club For Growth.<\/p>\n
In a\u00a0post on X\u00a0Nov. 25, Braun said he’s “grateful” to the General Assembly.<\/p>\n
“Hoosiers deserve to have fair representation in Washington and now the General Assembly needs to deliver a 9-0 map which will help level the playing field,” he said.<\/p>\n
House minority leader Phil GiaQuinta, D-Fort Wayne, reacted with dismay.<\/p>\n
“Hoosiers have already said loud and clear that they don’t want redistricting,” he wrote. “Why are we wasting valuable time and resources on this when we could be lowering costs for Hoosiers?”<\/p>\n
Since they’re starting their 2026 session early, the leaders said they anticipate ending the session early, by the end of February.<\/p>\n
This story may be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n Contact IndyStar government and politics editor Kaitlin Lange at Kaitlin.Lange@indystar.com or follow her on<\/em>\u00a0X\u00a0@Kaitlin_Lange.<\/p>\n This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star:\u00a0Indiana lawmakers will meet over redistricting after Senate reverses course<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Indiana General Assembly will meet in December to talk about redistricting after all, despite initial resistance from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}