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Still, the fact that Supreme Court justices are ex-officio superior to their district court brethren does not mean that they can dismiss district court opinions without so much as a discussion. It is ...

Six states, led by Texas, redrew congressional maps in 2025 in a wave of mid-decade redistricting that may have little impact on net control of the U.S. House.

WASHINGTON – At President Donald Trump's urging, Texas is trying to send even more Republicans to represent it in the U.S. Congress. To pull that off, the country's most populous Republican state is ...

Earlier this year, after the Texas Legislature passed a new congressional map engineered to net five extra GOP seats, Republicans in Texas and across the country were triumphant. The first shot in a ...

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. The redrawing of states’ congressional districts typically ...

After the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled in favor of Texas lawmakers last week, Republicans head into the 2026 election year with an edge in the redistricting fight kicked off by ...

A federal court blocked a GOP-led redistricting proposal in Texas on Tuesday, ruling the new congressional map amounts to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. But political and election experts say ...

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