Challengers to Texas’ new congressional map urged the Supreme Court not to pause a lower court ruling requiring the state use its old congressional map next year, arguing in a filing Monday the ruling ...

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Earlier this year, after the Texas Legislature passed a new congressional map engineered to net five extra GOP seats, Republicans in Texas and across the country were triumphant. The first shot in a ...