A standoff in Texas over redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump sharply escalated Sunday when dozens of ...

Gov. Gregg Abbott says state Democrats who skipped town to derail a GOP-backed redistricting effort could face expulsion from ...

Last month, Madigan was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison, following his conviction on bribery, conspiracy, and fraud ...

As Texas House Democrats hunker down in Illinois to try to stop a Republican-led redistricting plan in their state, national ...

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Texas Democrats, along with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the ...

South Texas: The districts currently held by U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar of Laredo and Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen would become ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has officially filed an appeal of his conviction on federal corruption charges.

Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows issued civil arrest warrants Monday for the more than 50 Democrats who fled Texas to ...

A roll call shortly after 3 p.m. revealed that there were only 90 state representatives on the House floor - 10 short of the ...

The warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators in question decamped to ...

Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday in a bid to block a partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional map orchestrated by Republicans, with the support of President Donald Trump. Follow for ...