119-hres650

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 650 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
H. RES. 650

Condemning the unconstitutional, racist congressional redistricting in 
 Texas, ordered by President Donald J. Trump.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 August 15, 2025

 Mr. Green of Texas submitted the following resolution; which was 
 referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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 RESOLUTION

Condemning the unconstitutional, racist congressional redistricting in 
 Texas, ordered by President Donald J. Trump.

Whereas this resolution may be cited as the ``Original Resolution Condemning the 
 Racist Mid-Decade Texas Redistricting Ordered by President Donald J. 
 Trump'';
Whereas, on July 7, 2025, the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights 
 Division of the Department of Justice, Harmeet Dhillon, penned a 
 communique to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken 
 Paxton declaring ``the Congressional Districts at issue are nothing more 
 than vestiges of an unconstitutionally racially-based gerrymandering 
 past, which must be abandoned, and must now be corrected by Texas'';
Whereas the communique went on to state: ``If the state of Texas fails to 
 rectify the racial gerrymandering of TX-09, TX-18, TX-29, and TX-33, the 
 Attorney General reserves the right to seek legal action against the 
 state, including without limitation under the 14th Amendment.'';
Whereas, on July 21, 2025, the Texas Attorney General responded, ``The evidence 
 at that trial was clear and unequivocal: the Texas legislature did not 
 pass race-based electoral districts'';
Whereas Texas State Senator Joan Huffman, who chaired the Senate Redistricting 
 Committee, testified under oath that she drew Texas districts in a race-
 blind manner;
Whereas the Department of Justice's focus on racial gerrymandering is nothing 
 but a thin veneer designed to distract from the Department's true goal 
 of further distorting Texas' already-gerrymandered map to maintain 
 Republican control over the House of Representatives;
Whereas, according to the Brennan Center, the 2020 Texas congressional map 
 resulted in Democrats holding ``13 of 38 seats (34 percent), despite 
 getting between 46 and 48 percent of the vote in recent statewide 
 federal elections'', indicating that Republicans already 
 disproportionately hold as many as 5 additional congressional seats due 
 to gerrymandering;
Whereas Texas has a shameful history of unconstitutional racial discrimination 
 against people of color, especially regarding voting rights; and
Whereas, given Texas' disgraceful, racist, and unconstitutional history of 
 voting rights violations against people of color, the targeting for 
 elimination of districts wherein people of color elect people of color 
 is consistent with the well-documented history of racist voting rights 
 discrimination in Texas: Now, therefore, be it
 Resolved, That the House of Representatives unequivocally condemns 
the unconstitutional, racist congressional redistricting in Texas, 
ordered by President Donald J. Trump.
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