The families of “Heaven’s 27,” the children and counselors lost at Camp Mystic, pressed the Legislature to toughen flood rules over the objections of some Hill Country camp operators.
After a bruising redistricting fight, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new congressional map into law. But the Republican-led Legislature, newly emboldened, has not stopped there.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California, has nicknamed his remapping effort the “Election Rigging Response Act,” arguing it is a counter to Texas’ pledge to redraw its map.
Todd Hunter, a Republican state representative in Texas, with fellow Republican members of the State House of Representatives during a session at the Capitol in Austin on Wednesday.