Representative Al Green, who has served Texas’s 9th Congressional District since 2005, will finally leave office.
The Texas Legislature, led by Republicans, passed a legal redrawing of congressional maps that effectively eliminates District 9. Green, best known not for legislation but for shouting down President Trump during his address to Congress in March 2025, will be removed from office after nearly two decades of loud, ineffective, and divisive politics.
Unsurprisingly, Rep. Al Green called the redistricting racist. But the only racial injustice here is the Democrat Party’s decades-long abuse of district lines to cling to power.
In his angry press release, Green declared that the elimination of his district—along with TX-18, TX-29, and TX-33—was part of a “racist, unconstitutional scheme” led by President Trump’s Justice Department and Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Green compared Texas Republicans to segregation-era racists and claimed that the GOP was targeting Black and Hispanic communities because “they elect people of color.” But that accusation falls apart under even basic scrutiny.
Redistricting is legal. It happens every ten years following the census—but Texas law also allows mid-decade redistricting, something Democrats took advantage of in the 1990s.
When Democrats controlled Texas politics, they created gerrymandered maps that were explicitly race-based. In 1991, under Governor Ann Richards and State Senator Eddie Bernice Johnson, Democrats drew new maps to form majority-Black and majority-Hispanic districts to keep their power intact.
Those maps were so outrageous that they were eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark Bush v. Vera decision of 1996.
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In Bush v. Vera, the Court ruled that the Democrat Party’s redistricting had violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The ruling stated that race was the predominant factor in drawing the district lines, which made the maps unconstitutional.
The decision forced Texas to hold thirteen new primary elections in 1996. So when Democrats accuse Republicans of racial gerrymandering today, they’re projecting. They built the system they’re now condemning—only this time, they’re losing.
The modern redistricting efforts led by Texas Republicans are fundamentally different. The maps were drawn based on population fairness, not skin color.
Senator Joan Huffman, chair of the redistricting committee, testified under oath that race was not considered in the process.
The real motivation for the redraw wasn’t racial; rather, it was mathematical.
When Joe Biden was still president of the United States, millions of illegal immigrants entered the country, many settling in cities like Houston and other border areas.
Because Biden’s administration ordered the census to include non-citizens in population counts, districts with massive illegal populations were overrepresented. That undermines the constitutional principle of “one person, one vote.”
When you count illegal immigrants in congressional representation, you give disproportionate power to districts with fewer actual voters. That means some citizens’ votes carry less weight than others.
The redistricting fixed that imbalance by shifting power back to districts with legal residents. Al Green’s district, packed with non-citizen populations, was rightly dissolved.
Republicans used the exact same legal tools Democrats once used to rig the system for themselves—and this time, they did it without violating the Constitution.
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