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But the contours of the plan, including whether Gov. Greg Abbott would call a special session of the Legislature to redraw the maps, remain largely uncertain.

Laws around the timing to redraw congressional and state district maps vary by state.

The instinct to redraw the boundaries of both the law and its protections—based on who invokes them—is the same.

In this case, the structural explanation is that the governing party in the United States has fully and even gleefully subjugated itself to a pathological narcissist who does not believe the rest of the world is real or has any independent agency: He is free, he believes, to redraw it as he pleases with Sharpies and tariffs and social media threats and the most beautiful, amazing deals with so many countries, more than can be found on any map.

Conservation groups fear the Trump administration may seek to redraw the boundaries of national monuments, including two newly created ones in California.