Supreme Court Allows Texas to Use Redrawn Congressional Map in 2026
The redrawn map would give Republicans five additional seats.
The Supreme Court struck down a lower court’s ruling on Texas’s redrawn Congressional map, allowing the state to use it in the 2026 midterms.
“For the reasons set forth in Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens, 607 U. S. ___ (2025), we reverse the District Court’s judgment,” SCOTUS wrote in the order list.
🚨 BREAKING: Supreme Court hands Republicans a redistricting win by striking down lower court block on Texas map pic.twitter.com/0V9MXFzRCv
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The decision comes after SCOTUS temporarily blocked the ruling in December.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
The redrawn map would give Republicans five additional seats.
Texas lawmakers passed the map along party lines, 88-52.
In November, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas – El Paso Division ruled 2-1 against the map, finding that the plaintiffs have strong direct evidence supporting their claim that Texas engaged in racial gerrymandering.
SCOTUS disagreed. In December, 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.
SCOTUS has already temporarily allowed California to use its redrawn Congressional map, which would flip five GOP seats.
I imagine we will witness a similar fight regarding the redrawn Congressional map Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled this morning.
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Let’s see how the Democraps react, regroup, reject, and resist. The war on elections could get really interesting.
There may be way more votes from Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and El Paso than there are registered voters. Those jurisdictions are also trying to have “mail-in” ballots received after the State deadline. I am a Texan.
More votes than registered voters is something that never happens, even in places that are notorious for fraud, such as Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, etc. There just isn’t a way to issue a ballot in the name of someone who isn’t on the roll.
In order to set up fraudulent votes you must first pack the roll with names of people who you know aren’t going to vote. Either because they don’t exist, or because they’re not interested in voting and aren’t even aware that they’re registered.
I’m looking at the rules of engagement and trying to assess the reality.
Dems set nationwide standards for race based districting that will give them an advantage and we are stuck with that.
Race based districting doesn’t let them win by enough so they go to some other crap that will let them pound out any remaining red districts (ie what Virginia, California and I think Illinois are doing).
Republicans swat back the race based garbage and a bunch of seats will go back to Republicans.
Dems seem to be playing from a different rule book to eliminate all republican districts where as Red state model is do what is fair for both sides. I’m not a fan of cheating, but the balance of congress is at stake, so I’m gonna say the GOP had better either get rid of the blue state redistricting cheat or adopt it themselves and let the 3030 census counts settle the score.
The ‘majority minority’ Congressional Districts may get taken out this term by SCOTUS. That opinion is most likely gonna be released very late so probably not gonna be in play for ’26. In 2028 though there’s potential for two dozen ‘majority minority’ CD to have been eliminated and that’s a huge swing. Add to that the potential dozen ish CD moving from Blue to Red States at reapportionment from ’30 Census and the landscape in 2032 is dramatically transformed.
You can’t tell from these statewide JPGs. You need a before-after zoom in of the blue urban areas. That being said it is clear Texas’s districts do not look like insects (Virginia).
If the Repubs lose the house by 1 or 2 remember that it was Indiana repubs who refused to redistrict to gain 2 additional repub seats.
The Indiana RINOs like to get down on their knees before their Democrat overlords.
It would probably be only one seat. There are already only 2 Dem seats in Indiana (which means it’s already been gerrymandered 6-2), and it’s almost impossible to get rid of all a party’s seats. You need one seat into which you pack all the opposition’s voters. Even in VA they left one seat for the Reps.
One seat is not to be sneezed at, but if it turns into a huge fight it’s not worth it.
You dont need to pack all the opposition voters into 1 district. You just need to spead them around sufficiently to dilute them. Doing this does depend upon how many there are and where they are located. Massachusetts does this,
Any word from the VA Supreme Court yet on VA’s referendum?
They heard oral arguments, but have not yet made a decision.
come on texas
stay maga…get more maga,, defund houston san antonio dallas and austin
none of that bs voucher system I see the governor promoting
So let’s cut to the chase:
Who will win the mid-terms?
Feeling cynical today to….Incumbents seeking re-election will win 98%+ of the time. Which really means the establishment wins alongside the entities with the most effective lobbying to gain favor and influence with the winning incumbents. Always handy to have a social invitation for the Spouse to keep them happy. Nice to have access to a sinecure or three to bestow on a ne’er do well in law/sibling. Board seats, Club memberships. Nice little get away trips on lobbyists private aircraft for a ‘fact finding’ junket.
The thing with the CA map is that CA Democrats were openly boasting about the fact that their map was based on racial gerrymandering.
Of course, its always been ok when they do it.
But, a BS claim that R’s are doing it is always enough to win at least at the District Court level – and often much more.
But that’s the thing. The person who was hired to draw the map said he was told to do it by race, but in court the Dems swore up and down that they didn’t tell him that, it was the farthest thing from their minds, they don’t know how he could have got such an impression, etc.
Did they pay him?
” 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.’
Nothing inspires confidence in our judicial overlords like a triple negative.
All lawyers should be forced to take and pass Boolean algebra.
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