Newsweek contacted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, who filed the legal petition, for ...

As Texas hurtles toward a flashpoint on a GOP effort to redraw congressional districts, California Democrats are about to ...

Republican leaders announced that if they can't reach a quorum again at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 15, both the House and Senate ...

Judge Scott Larson ruled that the Texas speaker and attorney general had “failed to present a legal basis for the court” to ...

Lawmakers are now framing their ability to prevent new maps from passing during one special legislative session as a victory.

The battle over mid-decade redistricting in Texas -- where the state’s congressional lines could be redrawn well ahead of the ...

Illinois law enforcement officers cannot arrest Texas House Democrats who have been staying in the northern state in protest ...

House Speaker Dustin Burrows has issued civil arrest warrants for the absent members found to be in Texas. None has been ...

Democrats' absence has halted work in the Texas House, which must also approve the new boundaries, for more than a week.

Plus, ahead of Friday's summit, Trump threatens “very severe consequences” if Putin doesn’t agree to end the Russia-Ukraine ...

On Tuesday, the Texas State Senate approved the new maps which are aimed at flipping as many as five Texas seats in the U.S.

For the past week, the Texas House has been at a standstill after Democrats secretly left the state to block a vote on a ...