“We want the country to understand what’s going on in Texas is a national battle,” said State Representative Richard Peña Raymond, a Democrat from Laredo who was part of the group heading to Chicago ...

“You all are being used,” Democratic U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro told the panel, saying it would confuse voters and motivate other states to rush to redraw their own maps.

The lawsuit comes shortly after a bill cracking down on the shipment of abortion pills from out of state failed in the Texas Senate.