Hours after federal judges blocked Texas from using a newly drawn Congressional map, state leaders filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. The redrawn map sparked a nationwide redistricting battle and is part of President Trump's efforts to preserve a Republican majority in next year's midterm elections.

A federal court struck down Texas Republicans’s new congressional map on Tuesday, potentially dooming the party’s bid to keep control of the U.S. House after what is expected to be a difficult midterm...

The panel of three federal judges in El Paso, in a 2-to-1 decision, sided with civil rights groups that had sued to invalidate the map, which was part of Texas’s aggressive mid-decade push to draw new...