An approaching primary election was a factor in Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to set aside a lower court’s ruling that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Texas can use its new, GOP friendly congressional map while a legal challenge plays out ...

The court ruled in favor of the map, which could flip five Democratically held seats in Congress to Republican control.

Texas officials drew the new congressional map to help Republicans gain up to five additional seats in the House in next year ...

The opinion, handed down Thursday evening, may allow the GOP to pick up five more seats in the upcoming election, ...

Houston Democrats are barreling toward a primary while North Texas Democrats await Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Senate decision.

This story was cross-posted from the Texas Observer, an investigative news organization that covers Texas communities whose stories are often ignored. After two weeks spent outside state lines—marked ...

(TNS) — Dallas council members on Monday, June 27, unanimously approved an updated map of city district boundary lines that’ll last for a decade. They had only three days left to make it happen. The ...

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Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — The Texas Legislature is convening Monday for a ...

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