Redistricting

The top races are more exciting and will get more attention, but the Texas trophy in the 2020 election will go to the party that wins control of the state's House of Representatives.

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The U.S. Supreme Court threw the inclusion of a citizenship question on the census in doubt, but another legal challenge with Texas ties could bring an end to the controversy.

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The power of incumbency is more than raising money for campaigns and having a well-known political name. Changing the state's election laws — or even debating issues that resonate strongly with voters — can set the rules and frame the arguments for the next election cycle.

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A panel of three judges heard arguments in the high-stakes fight that could return Texas to the days of federal supervision of its political maps.

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The Trump administration no longer supports requiring Texas to obtain federal approval of changes to its legislative and congressional maps.

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Find out where Texas midterm candidates stand on student debt, DACA, school gun violence and more.

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If a proposal isn't introduced within the first 45 days of the legislative session, the court will redraw the district itself.

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Some of the groups that have sued over the state's political maps made their intentions clear in a court filing Wednesday.

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The nation's highest court says the political maps in Texas are legal, except for racial gerrymandering in one Fort Worth district. But the courts aren't going to fix that in time for this year's elections.

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A San Antonio-based panel of judges ordered the state's maps should remain unchanged despite outstanding issues with House District 90, which the U.S. Supreme Court said was illegally drawn.

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The court also upheld 10 of 11 districts that had been flagged as problematic.

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As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders a Texas redistricting case, a coalition of voting and civil rights groups is pushing to establish an independent commission in which citizens, rather than lawmakers, would draw the state’s political maps.

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Texas groups representing Latino residents are among those who are suing the Trump administration over the addition of a question about citizenship to the 2020 census questionnaire.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a Texas redistricting case that could ultimately result in big changes to the state's political maps. But the courts have taken seven years to get this far, and that's a win for the Republicans favored by the current maps.

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As the U.S. Supreme Court took up Texas' redistricting case, several justices questioned whether they even had the authority to pick up where a lower court left off.

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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a Texas redistricting case that has flagged two congressional districts and nine Texas House districts. Here's a closer look at one of the districts in question: U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett's curiously shaped 35th Congressional District.

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Two congressional districts are part of a Texas redistricting case the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Tuesday. Here's a detailed look at what's at issue in one of them: the 27th Congressional District.

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The U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear a case over whether Texas' congressional and state House maps were drawn with the intent to discriminate against Hispanic and black voters.

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On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Patrick, Alexa about the Supreme Court-bound Texas redistricting case, Ted Cruz's latest fundraising numbers and former U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman's criminal conviction. Democratic congressional candidate Rick Trevino joins the conversation.

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Last year, federal judges ruled that when Texas lawmakers redrew the 27th Congressional District in 2011, they did so in a way that diminished the political clout of Hispanic voters. As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in a redistricting case that includes CD-27, take a closer look at what's at issue in the district.

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