The US Supreme Court on Thursday in a 6-3 ruling allowed Texas to use its newly redrawn Congressional map.
A panel of federal judges last month blocked the new Texas Congressional map and ordered the state to use the 2021 map.
In a 2-1 ruling, the three-judge panel ordered Texas to use its 2021 congressional map.
The judges claimed the newly redrawn map is unconstitutional because it appears to be a ‘race-based gerrymander.’
However, the US Supreme Court on Thursday restored Texas’ newly redrawn map.
“Based on our preliminary evaluation of this case, Texas satisfies the traditional criteria for interim relief,” the Supreme Court said.
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan fumed in a dissent, with whom Sotomayor and Jackson joined.
“Over the course of three months, a three-judge District Court in Texas undertook to resolve the factual dispute at issue in this application: In enacting an electoral map slanted toward Republicans, did Texas predominantly use race to draw its new district lines? Or said otherwise, did Texas accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a racial gerrymander?” Kagan wrote in a dissent.
“Without so much as a word about that standard, this Court today announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right,” Kagan wrote.
In late August, the Texas House voted on the new Congressional map after the Democrats stonewalled them for more than two weeks.
The map, passed 19–2 along party lines, was designed to create up to five new Republican‑drawn U.S. House seats in anticipation of the 2026 midterm elections.
“This mid-decade redistricting isn’t about fair representation—it’s about politicians picking their voters instead of voters choosing their leaders,” the Senate Democrat Caucus said in a previous statement. “And it doesn’t stop here. If they can gerrymander now, they can and will do it before every election.”
Democrat-run California passed a new congressional map that eliminates five GOP seats in response to Texas’s new map.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California, arguing that its new map is unconstitutional because it is allegedly race-based.
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