Overview

• The Texas Senate passed a mid-decade congressional map in a 19-2 vote, advancing a plan to add five Republican U.S. House seats.
• Dozens of House Democrats remain in Illinois, New York and California to deny quorum and block final passage of the new districts.
• Gov. Greg Abbott has pledged to call back the Legislature for successive 30-day special sessions with the same redistricting agenda.
• Republican leaders have issued civil arrest warrants, imposed $500-a-day fines on absent lawmakers and filed petitions with the Texas Supreme Court seeking their removal.
• Democrats are preparing Voting Rights Act challenges and blue-state governors have threatened retaliatory remaps in response to the partisan fight.