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The gambit has triggered a national redistricting war, as governors from both major parties threaten to initiate similar efforts in other states.
The state House speaker’s vindictive campaign against Democrat Nicole Collier has no basis in law. But it’s Texas, where anything probably goes these days.
With the GOP-driven redrawing of congressional boundaries about to become law, Texas Democrats move to the next stage of ...
The vote overcame weeks of protests from House Democrats who fled the state to stall a vote on the mid-cycle redistricting.
Republicans’ unusual mid-decade redistricting plan follows push from President Donald Trump to protect the GOP’s slim ...
The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives passed Wednesday a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five ...
The approval of the Texas maps on an 88-52 party-line vote is likely to prompt California’s Democratic-controlled state Legislature this week to approve of a new House map creating five new Democratic ...
After House Democrats absconded for more than two weeks in opposition to a Congressional redistricting bill, the Texas House on Wednesday passed the bill by a vote of 88-52. It was passed after ...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier, a Democrat who slept in the Texas House chamber after refusing Republicans' demand that Democrats leave only with police escort.
House Bill 4 advances to the Senate after Democrats return from a quorum-breaking walkout. Republicans aim to reshape the ...
By Jade Walker, CNN Hurricane Erin may not be forecast to make landfall, but the sprawling Category 2 storm is still going to impact much of the East ...
The potential court challenge would argue HB 4 amounts to unconstitutional gerrymandering, silencing minority and Democratic ...