A U.S. judge issued an unusual dissenting opinion on Wednesday lambasting an earlier ruling that blocked Texas Republicans from using a new congressional map, saying he had been cut out of the decisio...

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that invalidated Texas’ new congressional maps for racial gerrymandering.

The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito will remain in place at least for the next few days while the court considers whether to allow the new map favorable to Republicans to be used in the midterm e...