(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Democratic U.S. Senator says there is a difference between the move to redraw Texas’ congressional map and the move to do the same in Wisconsin. Sen. Tammy Baldwin told reporters the request to redraw Wisconsin’s political map is not inherently political.

Republican lawmakers are pursuing the unusual mid-decade redistricting plan amid pressure from President Donald Trump to protect the GOP’s slim majority in the U.S. House.

The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature is poised to vote soon on a redistricting plan that resulted from prodding by President Donald Trump. He's eager to stave off a midterm defeat that

As California pushes to eclipse Texas’ gerrymandering effort to win the House of Representatives at midterm elections, the first draft of the newly drawn congressional maps became public Friday.

A second special session that has made approving the map a priority started Friday, shortly after the first one ended.

The Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new winnable seats for the GOP at the behest of President Donald Trump.

Several Texas state House Democrats ripped up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort and returned to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.