As Texas pursues mid-decade redistricting, some Congress members aim to ban the practice

At least a dozen members of Congress of both political parties are sponsoring multiple bills that would ban mid-decade congressional redistricting , which Texas Republican state lawmakers are now pushing at the behest of President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott. But the prospects of such legislation passing in the current Republican-led Congress are bleak.

The trio of bills would bar states from redrawing congressional maps between censuses unless ordered to do so by courts. U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-Houston) says most of the Texas Democratic delegation has signed onto one of the bills, authored by U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Fort Worth). That bill, H.R. 4358 , is now before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

"I would love for it to be considered, but I think in this House of Rep