US EditionFederal court bars Texas from using new Republican-friendly US House map in midterms
A federal court found substantial evidence of racial gerrymandering in Texas’ 2025 map, ordering use of the 2021 map for 2026 midterms to protect minority voting rights.
- On Tuesday, a three-judge federal panel ruled Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and must instead use the lines passed in 2021 after a nearly two-week trial in El Paso, Texas.
- Republican lawmakers enacted the 2025 map earlier this year to bolster their narrow House majority, and the GOP-controlled Legislature approved it in August before Gov. Greg Abbott signed it, prompting lawsuits from civil-rights and advocacy groups representing Black and Hispanic voters.
- Court filings showed the 2025 map reduced majority‑minority congressional districts from 16 to 14 and eliminated five coalition districts, with five of six Democratic incumbents drawn into paired districts being Black or Hispanic during a nine‑day El Paso hearing earlier this month.
- The block came during the monthlong filing window for the March primary and before the Dec. 8 filing deadline, while judges signaled they may await U.S. Supreme Court rulings and expect a yearslong legal battle.
- Republicans hold 25 of Texas's 38 congressional seats and drew the map to gain five more, as Texas led a national redistricting push following President Donald Trump's call.
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Veasey to seek reelection after court blocks Texas’ congressional redistricting
AUSTIN — Fort Worth’s Marc Veasey said he unquestionably plans to seek reelection to his U.S. House seat after a federal judicial panel on Tuesday blocked Texas’ latest congressional redistricting plan. “I’m feeling upbeat. I’m encouraged,” Veasey told the Fort Worth Report after the three-judge panel threw out the redistricting map that cut Veasey’s District 33 congressional seat out of Tarrant County. The preliminary injunction temporarily ha…
Federal court blocks Texas’ GOP-friendly congressional map | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A federal court in Texas today blocked the state’s newly redrawn and Republican-friendly congressional map from going into effect in the 2026 midterm elections, dealing a blow to an effort by Texas Republicans and President Donald Trump to flip Democratic seats in the state.
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Columbus TelegramJudges block new Texas congressional districts
A federal court blocked Texas on Tuesday from using a redrawn U.S. House map that touched off a nationwide redistricting battle and is a major piece of President Donald Trump’s efforts to preserve a slim Republican majority ahead of the…
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DNyuz‘Played with fire, got burned’: GOP control of House at risk after court blocks Texas map
WASHINGTON — A federal court has blocked Texas from moving forward with a new congressional map hastily drawn in recent months to net Republicans up to five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in next year’s midterm elections.
In the struggle for the House of Representatives, the Republicans in Texas want to change the constituencies in their favor. This plan has now been stopped for the time being. A court found the new cut to be racistally motivated.
'Played with fire, got burned': GOP control of House at risk after court blocks Texas map
A federal court has blocked Texas from moving forward with a new congressional map hastily drawn in recent months to net Republicans up to five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in next year's midterm elections.
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