By Maiya Keidan and Brad Brooks

(Reuters) -Democratic lawmakers in Texas returned to the state on Monday, ending a walkout that broke quorum and blocked Republican efforts to redraw congressional maps at the behest of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Texas House of Representatives Minority Leader Gene Wu, chairperson of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, said in a statement that Democrats had returned and had “rallied Democrats nationwide to join this existential fight for fair representation.”

But Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday already called a second special legislation session in another attempt to rework the state’s congressional maps in an effort to give Republicans another five seats in Congress.

Trump believes redistricting would help maintain Republicans’ slim control of Cong

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