Sheila Jackson Lee could face off with Al Green thanks to Texas redistricting

A redrawn proposal for Texas’s congressional map could pit two sitting Democrats, Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Al Green, against each other in next year’s midterm elections.

Texas will add two congressional seats after a decade of population growth in the state found by the 2020 census, bringing its delegation to 38 members. A proposal for the new map released last month was not as aggressive as some observers of Texas politics expected and would have added both a Republican and Democratic seat while largely protecting incumbent lawmakers.