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Texas redistricting fight escalates

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin joins Texas Democrats to discuss redistricting fight

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is joining Texas Democrats to discuss the harm they say the state’s plan for a mid-decade redistricting could have on the country.

CBS Texas on MSN · 13m

Texas redistricting fight escalates as Democrats rally in Illinois, Republicans vow repeated vote attempts

Texas Republicans are trying to reconvene the state Legislature to vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party's favor.

USA TODAY on MSN · 23h

Bernie Sanders calls Texas redistricting push 'pathetic,' urges Dems to 'fight back'

Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders argued the Republican redistricting push in Texas is “pathetic,” and he urged Democrats to “fight back.”

JB Pritzker, Texas and Illinois

NBC News on MSN · 23h

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blasts Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Trump over GOP redistricting efforts

Last week, Pritzker appeared alongside Texas Democrats who fled their state in protest of the proposed new congressional maps, which Trump and Abbott have both boosted.

The Independent on MSN · 21h

‘Texas law does not apply in Illinois’: Gov. JB Pritzker draws line in sand as FBI ‘hunts down’ runway Democrats

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday refuted claims that President Donald Trump could force Texas Democrats to return to their state and cooperate with a Republican redistricting effort, insisting FBI agents had no jurisdiction to enforce Texas law in his state.

USA TODAY · 4d

Pritzker: Texas Democratic legislators who fled to Illinois are 'heroes'

Gov. JB Pritzker in Springfield on Aug. 6 called the Texas House Democrats who fled the state for Illinois to thwart a Republican quorum to vote on a controversial congressional redistricting plan "heroes (who) are standing up for democracy."

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Texas House to attempt another quorum on Monday as Democrats extend walkout, meet with Illinois lawmakers

Texas Republicans will again try to convene the House on Monday for a vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party's favor, an effort that already sparked a national political brawl and ...

The Texas Tribune14h

Paxton, Burrows ask Illinois court to enforce Texas arrest warrants against Democrats who left the state

The attorney general is calling on the “full faith and credit” clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says states should ...

3mon MSN

Texas tops AP preseason football poll, followed by Penn State, Ohio State

Texas received 25 first-place votes and 1,552 points to give the Southeastern Conference the preseason No. 1 team for a ...

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U.S. Supreme Court could rule on Texas lawsuits brought in Democratic-led state courts

If courts in Democratic-led states don’t honor a request by the Texas House of Representatives to domesticate civil warrants ...

WICS1h

Illinois police and Texas Roadhouse team up for Special Olympics fundraiser

As Special Olympics Illinois approaches the final heats of its summer sports, twenty Texas Roadhouse restaurants across the ...

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NBC's Welker to Pritzker: How Do You Preserve Democracy If Illinois Uses The Same Tactics You're Criticizing Texas Republicans For?

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told Kristen Welker on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Texas Republicans are trying to "cheat" by ...

Texas asks Illinois court to help it round up absent Democratic lawmakers

A lawsuit filed Friday in downstate Adams County seeks an order recognizing civil arrest warrants issued by the Texas House ...

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