Those Democrats, who are expected to return to Texas on Monday, continue to argue that Texas’ redistricting plans are unfairly taking place in the middle of the decade, instead of in conjunction with a national once-a-decade census.

Texas Democrats who left the state to block Republicans from implementing a new redistricting plan are heading home, but that doesn’t mean the fight about the state’s congressional map is over. Republicans are trying to implement new gerrymandered district lines that could give the GOP five additional seats in the House of Representatives if