ONE QUESTION in Texas’ redistricting fight could determine which party controls Congress in the latter half of President Donald Trump’s term: Did race or politics prompt the state’s rare mid-decade redraw?
- Over the next week and a half, lawyers defending the maps for Texas will argue in that state lawmakers drew them strictly to hand Republicans five additional seats in Washington — an unapologetic position that legal experts say is likely unconstitutional but, paradoxically, likely to prevail in court.
- On the eve of the trial, the court narrowed the dispute by dismissing a count alleging Texas unlawfully used ...