US EditionSupreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026
The Supreme Court paused a lower court ruling that blocked Texas' GOP-favored map, potentially flipping five Democratic seats to Republicans in the 2026 midterms, civil rights groups say.
- On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas to use a newly drawn congressional map for the 2026 midterm election, issuing an unsigned emergency order pausing a lower three-judge district court's 2-1 ruling.
- Acting at President Donald Trump's urging, Texas lawmakers in a special session redrew 38 districts after a Justice Department letter earlier this year challenged coalition districts.
- Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote that a three-judge district court panel found substantial evidence of racial gerrymandering and ordered Texas to use the 2021 congressional map pending trial.
- Because candidate filing deadline Dec. 8 is imminent, the new map engineered to give Republican congressional candidates in Texas up to five additional U.S. House seats faces a court hearing Dec. 15.
- Building on the Roberts court's 2019 ruling, the conservative justices' shadow docket rulings favoring state maps in roughly 90 percent of cases could prompt nationwide redistricting efforts, especially after Louisiana's congressional map case.
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Supreme Court Allows Texas to Use Republican-Favored Redistricting Map for 2026 Elections
The real political war in America isn’t happening on the campaign trail anymore. It’s being waged in our courtrooms, where the left has mastered the... The post Supreme Court Allows Texas to Use Republican-Favored Redistricting Map for 2026 Elections appeared first on Patriot Journal.
Texas Redistricting: The Supreme Court Wants Republicans to Keep the House In 2026
Two weeks ago, a federal district court declared Texas Republicans’ proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and blocked it from taking effect. On Thursday evening, the Republican majority on the Supreme Court reimposed that map, which will allow the state to use it in the 2026 midterm elections. As a direct result of this decision, Republicans could win five additional seats in Congres…
Supreme Court revives Texas GOP gerrymander
What happenedThe Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Texas Republicans can use the congressional map they approved in August, at President Donald Trump’s urging. The court’s three liberal justices dissented. A divided three-judge panel in Texas last month threw out the new map, which could flip up to five Democratic-held seats, with a Trump appointee ruling it an impermissible racial gerrymander.Who said whatThe ruling was a “major win for Republi…
SCOTUS Upholds Texas Redistricting Map
The Supreme Court granted Texas’s request to block a federal district court that called the state’s new map unconstitutional. “Based on our preliminary evaluation of this case, Texas satisfies the traditional criteria for interim relief,” the Court wrote. The decision notes that the district court “failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by construing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature.” The Di…
The Supreme Court of the United States has granted the Republicans ruling in Texas the reorganization of constituencies.
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