Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com. She has written for outlets including the Washington Examiner, Daily Signal and Alexandria Times. Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on ...
A group of plaintiffs has filed a new legal challenge against the Texas congressional map enacted in a 2025 special session. The lawsuit claims the new map is an unconstitutional gerrymander that ...
The battle now will go to the courts, where groups representing Black and Latino voters have already filed lawsuits asking that the maps be blocked from going into effect. A three-judge panel that is ...
Texas is currently the battleground over U.S. Congressional districts that could affect the 2026 midterm elections. Gov. Greg Abbott announced the intention to redraw the congressional maps as part of ...
Texas and California are at the center of a national political power struggle that could reshape Donald Trump's second presidency. Texas Democrats prevented the state’s House of Representatives from ...
One lawsuit, filed by LULAC on behalf of 13 Texas residents, states that the redrawn districts in the new map are racially ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Gov. JB Pritzker is facing backlash after he said Texas lawmakers are cheating by planning to redraw congressional districts to give Republicans more power. Illinois ...
Plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit over Texas' 2021 political maps are already gearing up for a fight over the GOP’s latest, controversial mid-cycle redistricting. The League of United Latin American ...
Texas Democrats showed up Monday for a special session but left open the possibility of walking out to derail an unusual summer redrawing of U.S. House maps that would help protect Republicans’ slim ...
HOUSTON – A group of 13 Texas voters is suing the state over newly proposed congressional maps, claiming the redrawn districts unlawfully dilute the political power of Black and Latino voters and ...
Democrats noted that, in every decade since the 1970s, courts have found that Texas’ legislature did violate the Voting Rights Act in redistricting, and that civil rights groups had an active lawsuit ...
Washington — The Texas Legislature is set to convene Monday for a special session where it will attempt to redraw the state's congressional map to boost President Trump and his allies' efforts to ...