A mid-decade battle over congressional redistricting is playing out in state capitals, in courtrooms and on the ballot.

The efforts to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage got jump-started when President Donald Trump called upon Republican-led Texas to reshape districts so that the GOP could win more seats in next year's elections.

Since then, lawmakers in Democratic-led California and Republican-led Missouri have approved revised districts , and officials in more states are considering it. Utah's Republican-led Legislature endorsed an altered congressional map Monday — though in response to a court order, not Trump's demands.

U.S. House districts typically are redrawn once a decade, immediately after a census. But some states have no prohibition on doing it more fr

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