Democrats blast GOP-proposed Texas congressional maps in redistricting showdown

Source: ABC News

August 1, 2025, 5:25 PM


Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Friday that GOP-proposed congressional maps in Texas would draw her out of the district where she lives, part of a redistricting effort Democrats say is aimed at at picking up five seats to keep Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

During public testimony at a hearing on the plan in the state capitol, Crockett said she had been asked to confirm her home address by the legislature, she said, ahead of the previous field hearings. "In addition to the fact that I know that this legislature did ask us as members of Congress to confirm our addresses, I don't know how many of us actually still reside in the districts that we represent.

I do not currently reside in my district based upon the plan that has been drawn, which is another red flag," she said. She alleged that some other members had also been drawn out of their seats. More broadly, Crockett attacked the proposed maps as discriminatory and the map "does nothing but divide, distract and depress," she said.

Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who currently represents Texas' 37th Congressional District but would be in the same district as fellow Democratic Rep. Greg Casar if the new maps go through, told the hearing that he is an "unusual opponent of this plan" because more than half of the people in the district he represents, which he said he's filed for reelection in, are still there. "This is not a Texas map. It is a Trump map.

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