US EditionSupreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026
The Supreme Court paused a lower court ruling to allow Texas's GOP-favored map, which could add five Republican seats, to be used in the 2026 midterm elections.
- 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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