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Elected officials from Houston and across Texas were swift to react Tuesday after a federal court blocked a new congressional map passed by the state’s Republican lawmakers in a case that has major implications for voters in Southeast Texas.

The decision by a panel of three federal judges — two of whom were appointed by Republican presidents — is a blow to President Donald Trump’s explicit aim to flip five Democrat-held congressional districts into the Republican column. Texas’ mid-decade redistricting effort set off a multi-state arms race over control of the U.S. House of Representatives during the last two years of Trump's second term.

Texas Republicans argued in court that the new map was drawn strictly for partisan purposes, but the judges in El Paso d

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