A Mississippi attorney is at the center of Texas’s unusual mid-decade effort to redraw its congressional districts, which has prompted a national battle between red and blue states over partisan gerrymandering.

Tommie Cardin, an attorney in the Ridgeland office of national law firm Butler Snow, has listed in his online profile that he is counsel to the chair and staff of the Texas House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting.

Cardin and a spokesperson for the law firm did not respond to questions for this story. But Texas news outlets have reported that Cardin is the attorney for the committee, and the House member who filed the redistricting legislation said he received the proposed maps from Butler Snow.

After the U.S. Census is completed at the start of a new decade, states

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