Burrows and Paxton filed their lawsuit in Illinois westernmost county, which recorded a 47 percent vote for Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election. This was some distance from DuPage County, the Chicago suburb and Democratic stronghold where The Texas Tribune reports the Democratic lawmakers are staying.

Every previous public poll had shown the attorney general with a considerable lead over Texas’ incumbent senator.

Next year’s U.S. Senate Republican primary between longtime incumbent John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has always been about Cornyn’s questionable MAGA credentials and Paxton’s quest...

But their walkout raised the issue of political gerrymandering nationally as well as whether the process should be confined to the traditional once-per-decade, post-census drawing of boundaries or wh...