The Biden administration had challenged a Republican-led redistricting plan that diluted the political power of minorities.

A vacancy in a statewide elective office means the governor selects the replacement. And it could set off a scramble across ...

All 20 GOP senators signed on to Senate Bill 16, which would apply to currently registered voters, and restrict some to only ...

A bill filed Friday and backed by top Republicans aims to give doctors more leeway to treat pregnant patients in medical ...

This would help provide more information about maternal deaths and instances where women also died in pregnancy and childbirth in the Lone Star state.

The Democratic Party appears fractured as a torrent of frustration and anger has been unleashed on Senate Democratic Leader ...

A priority bill filed in the Texas Senate seeks to extend the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to K ...

The committee and some Democratic legislators want that information revealed to help get a fuller picture of how and why mothers are dying. Some bills would also rejoin Texas to the federal system ...

A hearing on the bill included heated testimony from ultra-conservative evangelical pastor Rafael Cruz, the father of Texas U ...

The case involves Texas’ 2021 redrawing of 2021 of political maps for congressional and state legislative districts after the 2020 census. The updated maps were meant to reflect the state’s ...

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