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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The Supreme Court of the United States has granted the Republicans ruling in Texas the reorganization of constituencies.
US Supreme Court allows Texas to use map favoring Republicans in 2026
A divided Supreme Court has come to the rescue of Texas Republicans. Thursday's ruling allows the state's next congressional elections to use the GOP's new map pushed by President Donald Trump despite a lower-court ruling that it likely discriminates on the basis of race. Story Nicolas Chaumontin and Simon Moritz.
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