{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://veasey.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-veasey-5th-circuit-courts-decision-strike-down-racist-maps", "Congressman Veasey On the 5th Circuit Court\u2019s Decision to Strike Down Racist Maps", "2025-11-18", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "House", "TX", "Marc A. Veasey", "V000131", "veasey.house.gov", "veasey", "https://veasey.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C- Today, a three-judge panel for the 5th Circuit Court struck down that the maps proposed by Governor Abbott, Donald Trump, and Texas Republicans, ruling that it discriminated on the basis of race to dilute the power of minority voters. Congressman Veasey issued the following statement in response:\n\n\u201cThe courts have affirmed what we\u2019ve known all along: Trump, Abbott, and their Republican stooges intentionally jammed through racist, rigged maps to shut minority voters up and shut us out. They tried to steal power they could never win honestly.\n\n\u201cThey thought we would roll over and take it. Boy did they have another thing coming.\n\n\u201cWe fought them in the streets, at the ballot box, and in the courts. We marched. We raised hell. We stood in front of judges and tore their lies apart piece by piece. And today, Texas proved it won\u2019t be pushed around.\n\n\u201cTrump and Abbott know they can\u2019t win on policy\u2014because their records are disasters. Record-high prices for food, rent, and healthcare.\n\n\u201cMake no mistake: this fight is far from over. Republicans will keep scheming, keep rigging, keep trying to bend democracy until it breaks. But if they think we\u2019re going to roll over and take it, they\u2019re dead wrong.\u201d", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://veasey.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-veasey-5th-circuit-courts-decision-strike-down-racist-maps"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9313430637121201, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}