On July 7, President Trump’s Department of Justice sent a letter to Texas leaders claiming three Houston-area and one Fort Worth-based Democratic congressional districts were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.

In a letter four days later, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton disagreed with the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division's interpretation.

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He mentioned that a lawsuit against Congressional District 18 had already been dismissed and the other three districts – TX 9, 29, and 33 – were drawn race-blind. The state just wrapped up a four-week trial in El Paso defending the constitutionality of the 2021 maps.

“The evidence at that trial was clear and unequivocal: the Texas legislature did not pass race-based electoral districts

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