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The backstory fueling the Texas redistricting bitterness
The backstory between Abbott, who is attempting to bulldoze the new congressional map through his state’s legislature, and Pritzker, who’s provided a safe haven for the Democratic lawmakers who have ...
Texas Gov. Wants Democrats Who Left State Kicked Out Of Office. Can He Legally Do It?
State officials are using what’s called a “quo warranto” process to ask the Texas Supreme Court to remove Democrats from ...
Texas Democrats leave the state, hope to derail Republicans’ radical redistricting scheme
Ahead of a vote on the GOP’s redistricting gambit, Texas Democrats played their final card: They fled the state to block the ...
The Origins of the Political Power Grab in Texas
The cutthroat political maneuvering in Texas seemed to begin quietly in June, when President Trump’s political team urged ...
Texas Democrats Take Extreme Measures To Block Vote On Redistricting Scheme
With Republicans in full control of the government in the Lone Star State, Democrats are using all their options.
Texas Democrats leave the state to prevent vote on GOP-drawn congressional map
Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday in a desperate bid to block an aggressively partisan redrawing of the state’s ...
Texas Democrats defy Gov. Abbott's redistricting ultimatum, and threats of arrest, to block consideration of new congressional maps
The governor had threatened to kick Democrats out of office after dozens fled the state to prevent new district lines from ...
Democrats prevent Texas House from moving forward with GOP-friendly congressional map
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t ...
Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP
The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and ...