Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu, who largely spearheaded Texas House Democrats' efforts to flee the state and break quorum in protest of the map, said the Trump-appointed federal judge's decision "stopped one of the most brazen attempts to steal our democracy that Texas has ever seen."

The NAACP Houston Branch celebrated a political victory after a federal court blocked Texas’s proposed redistricting plan, which could have reshaped political power for years in Harris

The congressional redistricting Texas Republicans pushed forward this summer didn’t just reshape two of Houston’s most historically diverse districts: It also changed which voters there have the power to choose who will represent them in Washington.

For months, Texas has been at the center of one of the most consequential political fights in the country. The Republican-led legislature pushed aggressively to redraw the state’s congressional districts years ahead of schedule,