On Wednesday, the legal fight over the newly approved congressional maps in Texas will shift from the Capitol to a federal courtroom in El Paso. That's when federal judges will consider a lawsuit by a variety of plaintiffs against the State of Texas.

They say the newly drawn districts in the middle of the decade aimed at giving Republicans five new seats violate Section Two of the Voting Rights Act and will hurt minorities by preventing them from receiving fair representation. Republicans have insisted they did not consider race when drawing up the new maps and that they reflect the fact that President Trump won most of the counties along the Texas border in last year's election.

In interviews with CBS News Texas, elected leaders on both sides of the political aisle feel confident the th

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