U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco on Monday ordered Alabama to use a new state Senate map in the 2026 and 2030 elections that is “identical” to one drawn and submitted by a minor resident, according to...

I F DICTIONARIES OF idioms came with illustrations, the congressional-district map that Texas’s government passed in August would be a textbook example of “hoist by one’s own petard”.

The ruling, which is likely to be appealed, is a major setback for President Donald Trump and Republicans, who had made Texas the centerpiece of a national campaign to redraw maps ahead of the midterm...