Supreme Court Pauses Order Blocking Texas From Using New Congressional District Map
I must stress this point: SCOTUS paused a lower court order. It did not rule the map as legal.
The Supreme Court paused a lower court ruling blocking Texas from using its new Congressional map in 2026.
So Texas can use it for now.
This is important: SCOTUS DID NOT rule that the map is legal. They just paused an order.
The fight is not over yet.
However, it’s more likely to hold until the 2026 midterms. The new map could help Republicans grow their House majority.
The majority wrote:
Texas is likely to succeed on the merits of its claim that the District Court committed at least two serious errors. First, the District Court failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by construing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature. Contra, Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, 602 U. S. 1, 10 (2024). Second, the District Court failed to draw a dispositive or neardispositive adverse inference against respondents even though they did not produce a viable alternative map that met the State’s avowedly partisan goals. Contra, id., at 34–35.
Texas has also made a strong showing of irreparable harm and that the equities and public interest favor it. “This Court has repeatedly emphasized that lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election.” Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020) (per curiam). The District Court violated that rule here. The District Court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson gave us a 16-page dissenting opinion.
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
Will it help if the economy continues to be as it was under Biden?
“It’s the Economy Stupid”
Prices continue to go up, and they are going up because of tariffs.
Housing prices are not going down that would require a deregulation regime and lowering the price of raw material (is there a country directly North of us that we put tariffs on for lumber for example? Are we paying more for steel than before?).
The tariffs haven’t even improved the manufacturing sector the WSJ correctly reported we LOST manufacturing jobs because the price of raw materials went up.
When the economy is bad and you show up as Mr. Fix it the public will hold it against you if you do not fix it.
Trump would have a 57% approval rating right now if he had not gone tariff crazy.
The public cares about immigration and education when the economy is doing well.
It cares about cultural issues everyone here does when the economy is exception
It cares about foreign policy when the economy is in borderline golden age mode.
When the economy is bad they care about nothing else.
Pretty insipid. Heard it on MSDNC?
“Prices continue to go up….”
Core inflation has been trending lower for months. PCE, the core inflation index, for last month just came out today, and it’s lower again than expected.
Like most victims of TDS, the disease has turned you into a gibbering fool. All is not lost though if you choose to get some help.
To add another layer
Democratic Extremism will no longer win elections for Republicans because Americans rightly despise Nazis.
Outside of planet Vance, Carlson, Owens and Crowder Nazism is a dead end everyone despises.
Sorry but this Nick Fuentes promotion
The public is not going to reward that nor should it.
Gerrymander has a 200 year history of being a paper tiger, it isn’t saving anyone.
If we want to avoid backlash it is time to keep our promises about promoting economic growth (you know in ways that Raegan or other actual conservatives would recognize that unlike government regulations have a history of working) and not embrace Nazis.
1. Name calling isn’t gonna work on same folks who’ve been called deplorables and viewed with contempt by the uniparty establishment for decades. After a few decades the ad hominem attacks of ‘ists, isms and phobes’ have not just lost their sting, but cause most folks to ignore/tune out those who make them.
2. The ‘economy’ does need consumers but the consumers need good paying jobs to bring home sufficient excess beyond paying for basics of food, shelter, transportation and increasingly health insurance in order to afford purchases beyond necessities. No good paying job = no high consumption…at least once Credit is maxed.
3. Standard formula ‘conservative’ economic policy got us here. US domestic manufacturing capacity sent overseas, the high wage jobs gone with it, entire regions of the Nation hollowed out becoming a virtual wasteland of despair, mired in poverty, govt welfare and addiction.
Obviously Fuentes is a kooky antisemitic goon. The way to disarm his sway over some folks is not to call him names but to engage him head on and calmly, cut up his kooky antisemitic tropes with facts and evidence. Force him to defend his bad speech with good speech. Taunting, name calling and refusing to engage him head on in debate isn’t gonna get it done and is likely to be far more counterproductive than realized by the crowd more interested in impressing their own supporters than refuting his nonsense and undermining his appeal.
Well, for the terrorists to work they had to be done early on. Everyone knew it would take time for negotiations and some negotiations are taking longer than others. The economy will improve and we still have roughly a year. It certainly can’t get as bad as Traitor Joe had it
Tariffs, not terrorists. Damn I hate the autocorrect thing
What in the hell are you going on about? Did the nurses forget to give you your pills this morning?
We need a reset for the midterms.
“Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson gave us a 16-page dissenting opinion.”
But of course they did.
Feelings over facts.
Gerrymandering is necessary to offset the other side and both Democrats and Republicans must do it to the hilt in self-defense. But it is destructive. It leads to one-party rule with all of the dysfunction and corruption that implies. This website offers a path to a workable mathematical solution. notogerrymander.com
InJustice DEI Autopen Jackson needs expulsion.
Also means that the California map will stick, offsetting Texas
Maybe but not necessarily. One of the big problems with the plaintiffs in TX was they didn’t create an alternative map using the same criteria as the State to demonstrate that TX could have also done the same in essence ‘but for a racist intent’. There’s two lawsuits v CA redistricting which gotta work their way through. The pending ruling in Louisiana v Callais may intervene. Similarly the circuit split regarding ‘coalition’ opportunity districts v racially distinct opportunity districts may play a role. CA has or had a handful of coalition opportunity districts (majority minority) and if those get nuked it will have impact beyond those few CD as maps are redrawn. Plus there’s the way CA went about it by scrapping their commission and some issues with whether they followed timelines in doing so.
“One of the big problems with the plaintiffs in TX was they didn’t create an alternative map using the same criteria as the State to demonstrate that TX could have also done the same in essence ‘but for a racist intent’.”
Thank you so much for explaining that phrase in English. I read it three times and just could not pierce the legalese.