California Gov. Gavin Newsom used his Democratic supermajority to push a new congressional map that favors Democrats in an effort to nullify the expected new map from Texas.

While House Democrats claimed their priority was flood relief in the first special session, they left the state for 17 days and missed voting on the flood

California Democrats are taking up their proposed constitutional amendment to temporarily redraw their congressional maps, hours after Republicans in the Texas House passed new maps of their own.

The California legislature approved on Thursday a redistricting plan aimed at giving Democrats five more seats in the U.S. Congress, countering a partisan advantage President Donald Trump sought from a Republican move to redraw political maps in Texas.

House Democrats are demanding answers from the newly merged Paramount Skydance Corporation about the controversial acquisition, alleging that a bribe took place between its CEO and President Donald Trump.

Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier has now spent over 24 hours on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety.

In a letter, Reps. Frank Pallone and Jamie Raskin raised concerns that Paramount paid an “illegal bribe” to the president ahead of the company’s blockbuster merger with Skydance.

Democratic leaders unveiled the censure resolution to their caucus during a meeting shortly after convening for the special session, and did not inform their Republican counterparts ahead of time. With Democrats holding a wide majority in the chamber, the censure can pass without any support across the aisle.

Several Texas state House Democrats ripped up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort and returned to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

Ten Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives have asked the NCAA if and how college sports’ major governing body plans to protect the interests of female athletes as the largest portion of NIL and revenue-sharing payments continue to be directed to male athletes.