Abbott Vows to Quickly Enact New Texas Congressional Map Favoring Republicans

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Aug. 23 celebrated the state Legislature’s passage of a new congressional map drawn to favor Republicans, and vowed to quickly sign it into law. The Republican-majority Texas Senate passed the new congressional map into law in a party-line vote in the early morning hours on Aug. 23. Texas’s Republican-majority House of Representatives had approved the redrawn map in an Aug. 20 vote. “The One Big Beautiful Map has passed the Senate and is on its way to my desk, where it will be swiftly signed into law,” Abbott said in a press statement on Saturday. “I promised we would get this done, and delivered on that promise. I thank Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick for leading the passage in the Senate of a bill that ensures our maps reflect Texans’ voting preferences.”...