{"id":383058,"date":"2025-08-29T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383058\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:01:10","slug":"texas-governor-signs-new-redistricting-bill-setting-up-loss-of-democratic-seats-in-us-house-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383058\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas governor signs new redistricting bill, setting up loss of Democratic seats in US House | Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas<\/a>\u2019s governor, Greg Abbott, has signed a new redistricting bill that will redraw the state\u2019s congressional map to heavily favor Republicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Abbott signed the highly controversial bill which prompted state Democrats<\/a> to stage a weeks-long walkout earlier this month.<\/p>\n

In a video on X, Abbott can be seen signing the bill and says it \u201ccreates the one big, beautiful map that ensures fairer representation in the United States Congress for Texas\u201d.<\/p>\n

Abbott\u2019s signing comes after the Texas house of representatives approved the new map \u2013 which is set to create as many as five additional Republican congressional districts \u2013 on an 88-52 party line vote. The state senate then approved the bill early on Saturday.<\/p>\n

After the house\u2019s approval,<\/a> Donald Trump took to Truth Social and wrote: \u201cBig WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed, on our way to FIVE more Congressional seats and saving your Rights, your Freedoms, and your Country, itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas never lets us down. Florida, Indiana, and others are looking to do the same thing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The bill\u2019s passage follows Trump\u2019s request for the state to draw new congressional maps. Currently, 25 of Texas\u2019s 38 districts have Republican majorities. The new redistricting will bring the Republican-favored districts to 30.<\/p>\n

The new districting plans will remove Democratic-majority districts in several major cities including Houston, Austin and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.<\/p>\n

The new map has drawn condemnation from Democrats<\/a> as well as civil rights groups.<\/p>\n

In response<\/a> to the passage of the map, Legal Defense Fund policy director Demetria McCain issued the following statement: \u201cBlack voters are not a tool for legislators to use to cut up maps as they see fit. This redistricting process in Texas is a shameful power grab at the expense of Black voices.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cRedistricting should be a sacred process, designed to empower voters in a transparent manner. The Texas leadership has instead made a mockery of our political process,\u201d McCain added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Oni Blair, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Texas chapter, said<\/a>: \u201cBefore passing any disaster relief, Governor Abbott and his legislative allies redrew voting maps behind closed doors to further disenfranchise Black, Brown, and Asian American voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disgraceful that Texas lawmakers chose to advance President Trump\u2019s extreme agenda while turning their backs on the thousands of families still reeling from one of the deadliest floods in state history. Every Texan deserves fair representation \u2013 because in a democracy, voters pick their leaders, not the other way around,\u201d Blair added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019s governor, Greg Abbott, has signed a new redistricting bill that will redraw the state\u2019s congressional map to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-383058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115113366975654436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}