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Texas House Democrats who left the state to prevent a vote on new congressional maps will return to Texas, feeling they have accomplished their mission of killing the first special session, raising ...
The Texas Senate voted 19-2 along party lines on Tuesday to approve a congressional redistricting map that is identical to a ...
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows confirmed the plans during a brief session Tuesday morning that marked another failure to ...
Democrats in the Texas state Senate walked off the floor Tuesday without preventing passage of new congressional districts in that body. Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives fled to ...
When House Democratic lawmakers left Texas to delay passage of a new congressional map, Gov. Greg Abbott took the ...
When Gov. Greg Abbott called a special session last month, he put legislation responding to the devastating Hill Country ...
In this week’s episode, Matthew and Eleanor ask University of Houston law professor David Froomkin to help them break down the legal cases seeking to remove 13 Democrats from the Texas House.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a Tarrant County judge to jail former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, in another escalation in Republicans’ broader effort to put an end to Texas ...
Texas House Democrats plan to return to the state after fleeing to block GOP redistricting efforts, local Texas media has ...
The Texas Senate’s marathon session Tuesday wasn’t without its own political drama. Early on, nine of the chamber’s Democrats ...
Trump administration live updates: National Guard expected to be deployed in D.C. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release ...
Specifically, they're talking about the political hardball that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and super-majority legislative Democrats played when, in 2021, they gerrymandered rival Republicans into ...