The Texas Senate on Friday debated a bill that redraws the state's congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five seats held by Democrats to Republicans. After the state House passed it on Wednesday,

The mid-decade map redraw adds five Republican-leaning districts and sets up a legal showdown over minority representation.

Hours after the Texas House of Representatives passed a revision of the state's congressional districts, voters filed a complaint alleging legislators created "a map that eviscerates minority representation and hands Anglo voters control of an even larger share of Texas' congressional seats."