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AUSTIN, Texas — State lawmakers in the Texas Senate held their final scheduled public hearing on congressional redistricting on Tuesday. The Senate committee gathered in Austin, but only allowed ...

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Lawmakers and criminal justice advocates are using a special legislative hearing on Wednesday as a chance to draw attention to violence in the state’s correctional facilities and renew calls for ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Congressional redistricting ordered by a judge is getting underway with the first of a pair of public hearings to react to proposed maps. "We are doing this under the court’s order ...