IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 650 
Condemning the unconstitutional, racist congressional redistricting in Texas, 
ordered by President Donald J. Trump. 
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 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the unconstitutional, racist congressional redis-
tricting in Texas, ordered by President Donald J. 
Trump. 
Whereas this resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Original Resolu-
tion Condemning the Racist Mid-Decade Texas Redis-
tricting 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 Gov-
ernor 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 aban-
doned, and must now be corrected by Texas’’; 
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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 Amend-
ment.’’; 
Whereas, on July 21, 2025, the Texas Attorney General re-
sponded, ‘‘The evidence at that trial was clear and un-
equivocal: 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 gerry-
mandering is nothing but a thin veneer designed to dis-
tract from the Department’s true goal of further dis-
torting 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 ra-
cial discrimination against people of color, especially re-
garding voting rights; and 
Whereas, given Texas’ disgraceful, racist, and unconstitu-
tional history of voting rights violations against people of 
color, the targeting for elimination of districts wherein 
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people of color elect people of color is consistent with the 
well-documented history of racist voting rights discrimi-
nation in Texas: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives un-
equivocally condemns the unconstitutional, racist congres-
sional redistricting in Texas, ordered by President Donald 
J. Trump. 
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