US EditionTexas GOP’s Redistricting Setback Raises Questions for Other Redrawn Maps
A federal panel found Texas' redrawn map racially gerrymandered to harm Black and Hispanic voters, blocking its use and challenging GOP's slim majority ahead of 2026 elections.
- On November 18, a three-judge federal panel in El Paso struck down Texas's new congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, barring its use for the 2026 midterms.
- Texas lawmakers approved a rapid summer redraw engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats, prompting civil-rights groups including the NAACP to sue over diluted Black, Hispanic and Asian American voting strength.
- The judges found that race predominated in key districts, noting minority voters were packed or split to reduce multi-ethnic coalition districts and issued a 2025 map opinion supported by 628 footnotes.
- Texas officials filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after Gov. Greg Abbott defended the map, while election administrators must prepare ballots and filings under the restored 2022-era map.
- The Justice Department sued in California federal court to block new congressional boundaries approved by California voters, though experts say Proposition 50, passed with 64% support on Nov. 4, is unlikely affected.
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Court blocks GOP friendly Texas voting map in major blow ahead of 2026 - Asian Journal News
The United States Courthouse in El Paso, Texas, where a three judge federal panel blocked the GOP drawn congressional map for the 2026 elections. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) Federal court blocks Texas’s new GOP drawn congressional map, ruling it racially gerrymandered. Decision keeps current districts for the 2026 midterms. AUSTIN, TEXAS - A federal judicial panel has…
How the GOP’s Gerrymandering in Texas Backfired
In a blockbuster decision on Tuesday, a three-judge federal court in Texas struck down that state’s new redistricting map, which was deliberately drawn to give Republicans five new seats in Congress.The court deemed the map unconstitutional, but not because it was a partisan gerrymander. Under a 2019 Supreme Court case, partisan gerrymanders are not unconstitutional. Instead, the court ruled that Texas’s new map is an unconstitutional racial ger…
Senator West's Statement on the Western District Decision on the Redistricting Maps
DALLAS— We are truly elated to hear that the Western District Court ruled “that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map,” enjoined these maps from being imposed on the citizens of Texas, and ruled that “reverting to the 2021 Map is the proper remedy.” In this moment of victory, we cannot help but reaffirm what we already knew – the Trump DOJ letter to the Governor and the subsequent call by this legislature to implement these maps blatantly vi…
Texas GOP’s redistricting setback raises questions for other redrawn maps
A federal court’s decision to block a new GOP-favored House map in Texas is raising questions over the fate of other redrawn maps around the country. A panel of federal judges blocked Republicans’ bid to use a new set of GOP-favored congressional lines ahead of 2026, arguing it was a likely racial gerrymander. The case largely centered…
Judge who blocked new congressional maps longtime far-right ally
When Texas’ new GOP-friendly congressional map was struck down on Tuesday, state leaders blamed the “radical left” and “activist judges.” But the opinion was authored by Judge Jeffery Brown, a former Texas Supreme Court justice and appointee of President Donald…
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