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Texas redistricting: Political stakes increase in day two of Democrat quorum break
For the second day, there weren't enough lawmakers in the Texas House to debate a congressional redistricting map. As state Democrats continue with their holdout, there's now a hard deadline that ...
If the Supreme Court hadn’t failed NC, there wouldn’t be this voting mess in Texas | Opinion
The disappointment had a bitter epilogue. A Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court found in February of 2022 that ...
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Texas Attorney General Paxton will ask courts to vacate Democratic lawmakers’ seats
Legal experts say it’s “inconsistent with the Texas Constitution” to argue a quorum break qualifies as abandoning an office.
Is redistricting legal? Texas dispute highlights long history of partisan gerrymandering
The word “gerrymander" was coined in America more than 200 years ago. What to know about the political manipulation in ...
Supreme Court orders new arguments in pivotal elections case
Louisiana's congressional map creating second majority-Black district faces Supreme Court review for potential illegal racial ...
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Texas Republicans: It’s About Power, Yes—but Also Their Radical Agenda
Of course this gerrymandering plan is about keeping power. But it’s about keeping power to a specific end: to pass laws ...
Texas Democrats who left state prevent vote, for now, on Trump’s efforts to add GOP House seats
Texas Democrats prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn ...