By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ANDREW DeMILLO Texas Democrats are leaving the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from ...

Some Republican-controlled states are moving to redraw legislative maps to pad their party's narrow House majority in ...

The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map ...

This corrupt special session is over,” said Democratic leader Gene Wu, less than a day before House Republicans are set to ...

A Texas House panel on Saturday advanced a new congressional map as state Republicans power ahead with a strategy backed by ...

Virtually all legislative or governmental bodies, from your local school board to Congress, have a quorum rule.

The plan increases the share of Hispanic voters in three of the five districts targeted by the GOP, banking that enough will ...

A group of Democrats has fled Texas as part of an attempt to block a Donald Trump-backed redistricting plan that could ...

The full Texas House will now vote next week on a map drawn to flip five House districts to the G.O.P., but Democrats might ...

Democrats in the Texas House have fled in an attempt to prevent a vote Monday on Trump-backed maps designed to add GOP seats ...

The new proposed lines would also prevent few, if any, opportunities for Democrats hoping that an aggressive gerrymander ...

Democratic statehouse legislators are planning to leave Texas on Sunday in order to break the quorum of a special legislative ...