Sen. John Cornyn stood in the shadow of the U.S.-Mexico border wall for a campaign event, but the Texas Republican didn’t offer the kind of diatribe about illegal immigration that stokes his party’s core and fueled Donald Trump’s rise to the White House.

A federal court on Wednesday refused a GOP effort to invalidate California’s new congressional map that adds up to five Democratic-leaning seats.  In a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel rejected