On August 8, 2025, the Legal Defense Fund; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; the Barbara Jordan Leadership Institute; the Houston Area Urban League; Black Voters Matter; and Friendship-West Baptist Church submitted supplemental public testimony regarding the Texas’ mid-decade congressional redistricting plan that is being considered during the special legislative session. LDF previously submitted testimony to the Texas House and Senate Committees on Congressional Redistricting on July 24.
This supplemental testimony reflects some of LDF’s current thinking based on four regional public hearings and the new map introduced on July 30. LDF remains strongly opposed to the Governor’s call to conduct mid-decade congressional redistricting and strongly opposed to the proposed map on the basis of it weakening Black and Hispanic Texan voters’ electoral opportunities and a complete lack of rational justification and transparency in this redistricting process.
Read the Aug. 8 supplemental testimony here.
Read the July 24 House testimony here and the Senate testimony here.
To learn more about LDF’s redistricting work, visit our website here.
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Founded in 1940, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is the nation’s first civil rights law organization. LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute is a multi-disciplinary and collaborative hub within LDF that launches targeted campaigns and undertakes innovative research to shape the civil rights narrative. In media attributions, please refer to us as the Legal Defense Fund or LDF. Please note that LDF has been separate from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) since 1957 — although LDF was originally founded by the NAACP and shares its commitment to equal rights.
