The proposal would require the Texas Legislature to return for a special session to carry out the rare move of reshaping the state’s political boundaries mid-decade.

More than three years after the Texas Legislature redrew all of its congressional and state legislative districts, the legal fallout is far from over. Yet that is not stopping President Donald Trump's administration from tossing a major monkey wrench into ongoing court fights over the maps.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) sees a potential path to a Democratic majority in an unlikely place: deep-red Texas. The White House is reportedly pressing Texas Republicans to redraw the lines for U.