The new map could secure the GOP five additional seats in Congress in next year's midterms. Democrats say they now plan to challenge the map in court.

Texas’ Republican-led House of Representatives voted along party lines to pass a controversial new electoral map, a redistricting move designed to give the GOP an additional five seats in the U.S. House.

Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he supported a proposal by California Democrats to redraw congressional lines in response to a Republican-led push in Texas to gain additional US House seats but expressed unease with the broader effects of political gerrymandering.

A partisan move by Texas to redraw its congressional maps in the middle of the decade to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House set off a clamor to replicate the effort in statehouses controlled by both parties.

CBS News Texas spoke with Rep. Nicole Collier via Zoom, and she said the situation is wrong, just like the new congressional maps she and other Democrats have tried to block from being passed.