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, which could add five Republican seats in the 2026 midterms, amid ongoing legal challenges.
- 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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A new cut in the constituencies in the state of Texas is said to give US President Trump's party a tailwind for the congressional elections. The Supreme Court gives the Republicans the green light for this.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that determined that the new boundaries were probably unconstitutional because they were drawn on the basis of race. The decision could have significant consequences for next year’s mid-term elections, which will determine House control during the last t…
A new cut in the constituencies in the state of Texas is said to give US President Trump's party a tailwind for the congressional elections. The Supreme Court gives the Republicans the green light for this.
News Wrap: SCOTUS allows Texas to use new congressional map
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