How many congressional districts did the Justice Department flag as potential racial gerrymanders in its July 2025 letter to Texas?

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The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division identified four Texas congressional districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders, with all four districts containing non-white majorities and three of them in Houston. Governor Abbott cited this DOJ letter as justification for calling the special legislative session to redraw the maps. This reveals federal-state power dynamics: the DOJ flagged violations, but Texas Republicans used the warning as political cover to redraw maps that reduced minority voting power even further. Texas claimed it was "fixing" racial gerrymandering while actually eliminating the coalition districts that gave Black and Latino voters electoral strength.

How many congressional districts did the Justice Department flag as potential racial gerrymanders in its July 2025 letter to Texas?

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